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lilliputian
64 MB  Posts: 68 A Good Apple! 
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on: September 24, 2021, 02:55
For those who may have missed it, I uploaded TurboCharger to the Garden, which can be found here: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/turbocharger TurboCharger is a configurable floppy disk caching software tool. I acquired my copy unopened very cheaply on eBay recently and also plan on scanning the manual, disk, and box. For now, please enjoy! Requires at least a Mac 512k (sorry 128k users...). Only one 400k/800k floppy disk drive required to "TurboCharge!" your startup disks! And I suspect it will also work fine on a Plus or SE running System 6 as well (certainly seemed to work fine in Mini vMac, though I didn't go farther than booting from the disk image. I'm guessing later hardware may have trouble post-68000?) |
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: September 25, 2021, 12:07
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That's a very neat upload - thank you for uploading! This seems like a great helper for old compact Macs in mind. I do have a Mac SE that I may try it out on. So basically I just put in my floppy and it will "turbo charge" it ? How does it do it? (fixing fragmentation?)
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lilliputian
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64 MB Posts: 68 A Good Apple!
Reply #2 on: September 25, 2021, 22:28
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It's a disk caching program. I haven't tested it so I don't know precisely what it installs apart from the control panel (though it can apparently operate without the cdev if you want to save a little space once you've set the options as you like). Then, as you access parts of a diskette, it loads those parts into RAM, so that when you access them again it would seek from RAM instead of from the disk itself. "TurboCharging!" the disk is just their marketing speak for installing onto a startup disk. When you boot from the TurboCharger disk, it prompts you to insert a disk to install on. Supposedly, according to the manual, versions for Macintosh XL (Lisa 2) running MacWorks, as well as for hard disks, were in the works. Don't know if those ever materialized...
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