08-06-2025, 05:55 PM
W is for Warlords...
It's kinda funny that we never had a C64 and yet the speed of that drive popped right in mind when talking about how fast the SIO could theoretically run. My experience came from a friend that had one and waiting for games to load was painful. And reality it didn't need to be either, it was slow for backwards compatibility. But they could have easily left the compatibility in there and just added a mode that allowed modern hardware to detect, switch and zoom...
It's kinda funny that we never had a C64 and yet the speed of that drive popped right in mind when talking about how fast the SIO could theoretically run. My experience came from a friend that had one and waiting for games to load was painful. And reality it didn't need to be either, it was slow for backwards compatibility. But they could have easily left the compatibility in there and just added a mode that allowed modern hardware to detect, switch and zoom...
and so what uranus is a star - Rob
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