Comment by 👻 darkghost

LOAD "*",8,1

RUN

Yeah in the US we virtually all had disk drives.

Jan 24 · 11 months ago

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@hansbrix Load times on disk were awful too due to a bug in the signaling protocol. It was 300 BAUD! Large programs could take a half hour to load.

Commodore disk drives were slower than tape.

The bug was in the 6551 comms chip, and amazingly is still exists in chips sold today by the Western Design Center! It has to do with the shift register dropping bits, so you basically have to bitbang. Some people figured out how to bang up to 64kbps, while others, workarounds with the shifter...

This bug manifests in synchronous mode, and makes SPI-like comms not work.

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Gemini Demographics? Has anybody done any sort of research on who's using Gemini? As in age, gender, language and so on. I have content that might be interesting to younger generations, but I'm afraid nobody of that age range is going to visit my capsule. (In other words, what's the point to write a gamebook for gemini?) I believe others will be asking themselves similar questions..