It's not that we saw the value later, it's that a disk drive cost as much and for a while more than the computer itself, and most of us (or our parents) couldn't afford them. I saw a Commodore internal sales document in 2023 in which it is clearly stated that Commodore was aware that the buying power in 1980's Europe was significantly less than in the United States.
You know its going to be a good weekend when Friday starts with a new FairLight TV Video 😁💖💖💖 PS: Thanks for mentioning Redbubble, I'll be ordering some t-shirts 😁
As error correction Hamming Codes were already a thing in 1980, there was no reason data could have been stored at 8x faster rate on tapes. And using a 4-head tape head, storing nibbles would have made it another 4x.
@FairLight1337 tape fast loader was a thing, but Microsoft (or cbm) did go with slow, recorded twice on a mono head. Could a 4head and hammon code, make you load 48K in 30seconds? Something I want to build and test in the future
10:55 even at 720 lines I can't read all the the slide you put up. Went to 1080 fullscreen. 26:56 you mean every 8 lines right? 33:00 For the parallel modification, does the C64 already have routines in ROM to support this, owing to its PET heritage? And what of the 1541? Or do you still need all new routines for this to work?
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Great overview of the very interesting, uncommon stuff. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks pal - glad you like it.
Always a trip, finding a new FairLight upload. Discovering fastloaders was a game changer, literally.
Indeed. Life without them was a pain...
It's not that we saw the value later, it's that a disk drive cost as much and for a while more than the computer itself, and most of us (or our parents) couldn't afford them. I saw a Commodore internal sales document in 2023 in which it is clearly stated that Commodore was aware that the buying power in 1980's Europe was significantly less than in the United States.
Agree. Should possibly say "ability to buy".
Thank you for the technical insight. Well done!
Thanks for the comment.
Thank you! I was just checking fastloaders this morning :)
Great then :)
You know its going to be a good weekend when Friday starts with a new FairLight TV Video 😁💖💖💖 PS: Thanks for mentioning Redbubble, I'll be ordering some t-shirts 😁
Humble thanks for the kind comment!
Legend.
Thanks :)
Another interesting episode, thanks!
Thanks to you to!
Good to see you around still Bacchus :)
37 years and counting :)
Nice video, but holy f that end was loud compared to the rest of the video :D
Ah sorry.
Awesome video. Thank you! I'm not seeing a link in the description for the T-shirts, but I'd love to get one.
Clumsy linking on my behalf - sorry
www.redbubble.com/people/fairlight-flt/shop?ref=artist_title_name
Very interesting!
Glad you liked it!
Loved the episode! ❤ Spotted a typo: I believe the right word for “four bits” is nibble and not nybble.
I came here for nipples. I am disappointed.
Humble thanks 🙏🙏🙏
Both variants are valid:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble
Good to know, thank you@@FairLight1337
It's really good that you produce such high quality content - for free. I'll get the t-shirt :-)
Great - enjoy it!
As error correction Hamming Codes were already a thing in 1980, there was no reason data could have been stored at 8x faster rate on tapes.
And using a 4-head tape head, storing nibbles would have made it another 4x.
That one flew over my head.
@FairLight1337 tape fast loader was a thing, but Microsoft (or cbm) did go with slow, recorded twice on a mono head. Could a 4head and hammon code, make you load 48K in 30seconds? Something I want to build and test in the future
I'm more focused on making the most of the hardware that already exist, but everyone for his own ...
10:55 even at 720 lines I can't read all the the slide you put up. Went to 1080 fullscreen. 26:56 you mean every 8 lines right? 33:00 For the parallel modification, does the C64 already have routines in ROM to support this, owing to its PET heritage? And what of the 1541? Or do you still need all new routines for this to work?
Yes 8 lines. No part of ROM usable for the parallel transfer. You need custom ROM or all software.
Krill's loader is not publicly available, is it?
Have a look at CSDb. You can also Pam him there.