Rapid loading games - for the TV games computer

9-20 — elektor september 1982 rapid loading games rapid loading games Nowadays, people tend to hate anything that seems to be a waste of time. To TV games computer owners, a major source of irritation is the time it takes to locate a program on tape and load it. The whole procedure can take as long as two or three minutes! Terrible. Two or three seconds would be infinitely better. Faced with this problem ourselves (yes, and irritated!) we started looking for a solution — and found one. Using some further hardware, games can be stored in EPROM; a simple program can transfer any desired game to the RAM area within seconds. This is a major improvement, as you can imagine! for the TV games computer To be quite honest, this circuit was originally designed for purely selfish reasons: we wanted it at home, and thought it would be quite useful at electronic exhibitions. However, TV games owners who saw it in operation were so enthusiastic that we decided it would be unfair not to publ...