The Epyx Fast Load is a floppy disk fast loader cartridge made by American software company Epyx in 1984 for the Commodore 64 home computer. It was programmed...
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such as the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. For the Commodore 64, Epyx made the Fast Load cartridge which enables a fivefold speedup of floppy disk drive...
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fast loaders for the C64, usually in cartridge form. In the United States, probably the most popular such cartridge was the Epyx FastLoad. Most fast loader...
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"Jabberwocky" also used in popular culture Epyx Vorpal, a fastloading system for video games by Epyx Fast Load Vorpahl This disambiguation page lists articles...
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FastLoad may refer to: Teradata FastLoad, a database utility Epyx FastLoad, a peripheral cartridge for the Commodore 64 computer This disambiguation page...
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Commodore DOS (redirect from LOAD "*",8,1)
a LOAD "$",8 command overwrites the BASIC program in memory. The DOS Wedge and various third-party cartridges and extenders such as Epyx Fast Load, Action...
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speeds of up to 4 kbit/s. The most common of these products are the Epyx Fast Load, the Final Cartridge, and the Action Replay plug-in ROM cartridges,...
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use it. Much smaller; the plastic case was the same type used by the Epyx FastLoad cartridge. c64.org: Super 1750 Clone User's Guide (text) Archived 2016-04-18...
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incorporated in various third-party extensions, such as the popular Epyx FastLoad cartridge. Other BASIC extensions added additional keywords to make...
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NEC's TurboExpress, released the following year. The system was developed at Epyx by two former designers of the Amiga personal computers. The project was...
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floppy disks, with a device number and CBM-DOS compatible command set. Epyx Fast Load Cartridge 1650, 1670 and compatible modems At the peak of Blue Board's...
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better transfer protocol between the computer and disk. In 1984 Epyx released its FastLoad cartridge for the C64, which replaced some of the 1541's slow...
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CPU (fast/burst mode, additional registers and opcodes, support for illegal ops of the 6510) The official games for the unit are mostly a mix of Epyx and...
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game was created, but these plans were shelved after Starpath merged with Epyx in 1984. A prototype for the ColecoVision was also produced. The player's...
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Gateway to Apshai (category Epyx games)
published by Epyx in 1983 as a prequel to Temple of Apshai. It is a more action-oriented version of Temple of Apshai, with smoother and faster graphics,...
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a lot of color capability that had not been exploited. — Craig Nelson of Epyx, 1986 With sales booming and the early reliability issues with the hardware...
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of selling computer software, he eventually got a publication deal with Epyx, where they helped him to refine the marketing of the game, renaming it Sword...
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engine for a update of the Atari Lynx game Gates of Zendocon, one of several Epyx titles selected to be remade on Jaguar, but Weaver was not interested. Atari...
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the smash hit Impossible Mission produced by Epyx was originally designed for the Commodore 64. Epyx's multievent games (Summer Games, Winter Games,...
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MOS Technology 6502 (category Articles with FAST identifiers)
65C02 core. The Atari Lynx used a custom chip named "Mikey" designed by Epyx which included a VLSI VL65NC02 licensed cell. The G65SC12 by GTE Microcircuits...
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Epoch Co. Tokyo, Japan 1958 Barcode Battler no longer publishes video games Epyx Chappaqua, New York, United States 1978 Dunjonquest series Crush, Crumble...
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computer side recognized the strength of the consoles, and companies like Epyx, Electronic Arts, and LucasArts began devoting their attention to developing...
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Activision PS2, X360, PSP, Wii 2006-11-21 Pitstop Epyx Epyx C64, 800, CLV, CA 1983 Pitstop II Epyx Epyx C64, PC, TRS-80 CC, 800, APPII, VC 1984 PixelJunk...
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model year and ending on time for the 1985 model year. In conjunction with Epyx Software, Mattel released a computer game edition of Hot Wheels for various...
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was written for the TRS-80 by Yves Lempereur and published by Funsoft. Epyx's Temple of Apshai runs slowly on the TRS-80. Infocom ported its series of...
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game developers including Atari Games, Activision, Electronic Arts, and Epyx refusing Nintendo's one-sided terms. Acclaim Entertainment, a fledgling game...
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DOS Commodore 64 peripherals List of device bit rates Commodore 1541 Fast loader Magnetic tape data storage IEEE-488, the original parallel version (originally...
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a front-loading version only distributed in Japan, a top-loading version marketed worldwide, and the Neo Geo CDZ, an upgraded, faster-loading version...
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Systems to produce sampled speech in games such as Impossible Mission (1984, Epyx) and Ghostbusters (1984, Activision). The first instance of samples being...
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a lot of color capability that had not been exploited. — Craig Nelson of Epyx, 1986 16 kB address space for screen, character and sprite memory 320 × 200...
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