Novalight - very fast tape loading

[Symoon]

Ah, this is for the F16 speed bytes, right? (it's used for the loader part, loading with the standard ROM routines). EDIT: ok, you said it in your post, doh!

I'll have to check, but from memory it was giving the best results. Though I'm mixing a bit with Novalight waveform, which I studied (for quite a while) there:
https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtop ... 60&p=14519

IIRC, for Novalight, the best results (on something like 10 machines) for the four base waveforms were like:
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So I suspect I kept this "best" wavform for the F16 format.

PS: there's a working Novalight 1.3, which was a bit faster. I never released it, being close to another speed upgrade, but I was chasing a bug I didn't understand, and had to leave it aside in 2020. Hope I can get back to it soon

[iss]

Hope I can get back to it soon

Any chance for 1.3 in 2023
FYI, aside joking, I'm playing with Novalight 1.2a trying to make it work in real-time....

[Symoon]

Hope I can get back to it soon

Any chance for 1.3 in 2023

I'm afraid not
There's a 1.3g that goes a bit faster but I seem to recall it wasn't as "robust" as the 1.2a, I mean it was working fine with some machines but it seemed to have loading errors more often.
I also had internal code speed improvements in mind, but put it aside for other projects, especially since, in the end, all those improvements would have made a 12 seconds loading "drop" to something like 11.5 seconds. I mean, the amount of work and testing was only bringing a marginal gain, so I chose to work on other things

FYI, aside joking, I'm playing with Novalight 1.2a trying to make it work in real-time....

You must be crazy, but I like that!