Built using a black or blue PCB with ENIG 2 micron gold finish and including a 256 or 512 EEPROM.
The case is a modified redux 264 style cart and is now redesigned to accept the Pi1551 drive.
An EEPROM is supplied by default burned with the Parobek multi-fast-loader v1.1 utility and DOS wedge ROM.
This autoboots on switch on.
The two buttons on the top/back of the device move between disks in a directory for multidisk games or applications.
This cart is incredibly fast and has several games as well as a GEOS conversion to take advantage of the fast load times.
A lot of other software will also work IME, especially copy ripped games or single prg format files (or your own load/save programs of course) but most fastloads or copy protected software may not, unfortunately.
There is a Pi1551 project on github in early stages, a modified Pi1541 that works with this paddle and should give better compatibility.
Some features:
- DLOAD and DSAVE support for files
- support for disk images (D64, D71, D81, D80, D82) as subdirectories
- standard Kernal transfer at about 3100b/s (a little bit less than JiffyDOS 1541, twice as fast as 1551 (1600b/s)); fastload at about 9300b/s (23x as fast as 1541, about 6x as fast as 1551), with patched Directory Browser v1.2; on par with DolphinDOS
- fastload booter embedded in the flash, available at all times as
* file will load and run BOOT.T2SD file from root directory; this can be any file that can run from BASIC; Directory Browser patched with fastload protocol is recommended - CBM DOS disk commands:
CD, R, S, MD, RD, I, UI, UJ
Some of the games patched with fastload boot: Alpharay, Bards Tale III, Dragon Wars, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, Giana Sisters, Lemmings, Lykia, Pets Rescue, Prince of Persia, Turbo Outrun, Spellbound Dizzy...
Search TCBM2SD and Parobek on GitHub & Google for more info.