FAST-40

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FAST-40 is a brand-new 40-column cartridge for your Commodore VIC-20, now available from all good retail outlets such as WHSmith, Tandy / Radio Shack, Silica Shop, and Maplins.

I've finally finished the project and it's just completed a month of beta-testing by some of the fine folks over at the Denial VIC-20 Forums (I'm 8BitGuru over there).
It lives up to the aspirations of its name - it renders 40-column text faster than the C64.



The Github repo includes the full assembler sourcecode as well as the cartridge binary which you can use with an emulator like VICE, upload to a flash-cart like Final Expansion 3, or even burn on to an EPROM cartridge if you have the gear.

My next project will be some sort of windowing GUI for DOS-based PCs.

Denial: https://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bu ... hp?t=11264
Github: https://github.com/EightBitGuru/FAST-40

[venusian]

My next project will be some sort of windowing GUI for

<gets excited>

DOS-based PCs.

Oh.

[Istar]

Version 1.1a just dropped.

It's got a few new features and tweaks, but the big change is in performance - where v1.0 was about 2% slower overall at drawing 40x24 than the Kernal draws 22x23, v1.1 is on average 30% quicker.

You read that right - FAST-40 renders a 40x24 text display 30% faster than the Kernal draws 22x23.

That'll do, pig.