Articles tagged “Fast Load”
Relocatable Quick-Tape installer for the Sharp PC-1500
After my previous journal post about faster saving and loading of Sharp PC-1500 programs to and from tape I discovered that I was using a somewhat out-of-date version of Sharp Pocket Tools. The later version I upgraded to adds support for the "SuperTape" and "Quick-Tape" formats, and also includes copies of the PC-1500 programs for those formats. Both formats appear to support file names and verification of the recorded data (a minor gripe I had with the Fast Load was its lack of these features).
Fast Load PC-1500 Quick-Tape Sharp Pocket Computer SuperTape Tape loader
Faster tape loading on the Sharp PC-1500 with Fast Load
After I've typed a program into my Sharp PC-1500, I tend to save it to my PC for long-term storage using the CE-150 cassette interface. I use the same cassette interface to download programs shared by others over the Internet, and have written a previous post about resampling those shared wave files if you're struggling to load them. Loading a program this way is quicker than typing them in, but not by much! The Globe application is 5697 bytes in length but takes the best part of seven minutes to load from tape.