I was testing out TNT's new 1581 turbo loader last night, and WOW! what a speed. The whole thing loads in less the 10 seconds! Thats 179 blocks (45k) that load in a blip! While speaking to Luca I had mentioned that if I thought that most folk had a 1581, then I wouldn't worry about packing in the front end to the main EXE as it would all load in under a second! Pitty...Oh well, I guess the only way to really guarantee that kind of thing is to make a proper cartridge game; which is also somthing I considered BTW. Using a cart as a large instant Disk would be very neat, and I do think I'll do an MMC64 version that does just that! Once
the C64 version is done, I'll start splitting it off into parts and putting them on a memory card so that it can act like a cartridge. This not only gives instant loading, but also a huge capacity. I wonder how many MMC64's have been sold? The good thing is that unlike the SuperCPU, these are still being sold! So if someone wants to play XeO3 from cartridge, they can run out and buy one! I'll have to do a little investigation as to how it all works, but from what I've seen, it should be easy enough.
I wonder how much these cost to make.... If you could get it down a bit, you could bundle one with the game and sell it cased so it looked like a normal cart - even though there was an MMC inside! Althought thats probably taking it too far.....
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