Re: Accelerating the Disk II?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

mkelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu writes ...
> 
> I am wondering if anybody has heard of an undocumented practice that
> would "accelerate" the Disk II?
> 
> While trying to duplicate my original of Wings of Fury, I ran into some
> problems with "bit-slipping" that kept my duplicate from getting past
> the first track.  If the boot routine failed, e.g. it wasn't an original,
> it would fall into the Apple II monitor.
> 
> This is where my memory fails me, but I think I just tried booting from
> slot 6 using 6^P and pressing RETURN.  I may have been tinkering with
> the sector routines of Wings of Fury, too, as I said, I don't recall all
> the fine details, but I do know that when I inserted another disk it
> would boot at about twice the speed.
>
 > DOS 3.3 disks would read the first few tracks but would crash before
> showing the ] prompt. ....


     It sounds like Wings of Fury installed a faster DOS and changed
some hooks to BASIC.

     Wings' could have loaded some variant of a popular speeded version
of DOS 3.3. Or, it may have loaded a custom DOS which traded file
management features and/or storage flexibility for speed.
     

Rubywand