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 by Epyx employee Scott Nelson, who was originally a programmer for Starpath [1] and later designed the Epyx Vorpal fastloading system for the company's games.

Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and video game publisher active in the late 1970s and 1980s. The company was founded in 1978 as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman , publishing a series of tactical combat games.

May 12, 2017 · Epyx Fast Load was a plug-in cartridge that replaced the Commodore 64’s stock ROM disk loading routine with a more efficient routine that was about five times as fast. The result was that software that normally took three minutes to …

Jun 24, 2019 · Here’s a look at the Epyx Fast Load commands and how to use them. Most Fast Load commands followed the convention of Commodore’s DOS Wedge, but it only implemented a subset of it. The cartridge also contained some simple disk utilities, including copiers, a disk editor, and simple file utilities.

FastLoad(tm) by Epyx was released in 1984 and quickly became very popular in the USA. It supplies all basic functions and speed ups a user _really_ requires and is said to be quite compatible towards original software.

Oct 15, 2020 · The Epyx Fast Load cartridge does more than just boost disk read/write speed. it also adds a hefty toolbox to the standard Commodore 64 with tools and additional commands. Below is a brief overview of the commands, their functionality and how to use them.

Nov 27, 2021 · The Epyx Fast Load Cartridge is a floppy disk fast loader cartridge made by American software company Epyx in 1984 for the Commodore 64 home computer. It was programmed by Epyx employee Scott Nelson. Here you can find the complete instruction manual and you can also download it.

Jan 17, 2022 · We will be building a board that combines the Pi1541 emulator with the Epyx fast load in a cartridge form factor. The solution will allow programs to load from the Commodore 1541 emulated disk drive at 2,500 bytes per second, approximately …

Jan 29, 2021 · raspberry pi1541 zero hat (c64 disk drive emulator) and epyx fast load cartridge together for commodore 64

Our Epyx Fastload Cartridge loads games up to 16x faster on an SD2IEC! Since it is stored on a cartridge, and thus provides instant access without requiring any hardware modification of the C64 or the disk drive, the Fast Load is a very popular peripheral among C64 users.