Re: Accelerating the Disk II?

["Anonymous" <x.y@tennis.net>]

This has to do with acceleration, but not with programming or the OS...

The MultiCache Card loads all data from a 5.25 disk II drive, and then all
disk access loads data from RAM on the card.

This setup is really fast.  Unfortunately the cards are very rare.

Rubywand wrote in message <350F8B04.9415195A@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