I was thinking about the brilliant OTLA project 2.2:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/otla/downloadsThis is up and going with wonderful turbo loading results from WAV or MP3, since 2008 for the ZX81, Spectrum, Amstrad and MSX computers ( haven't tested on MSX yet
), so why not also for the EP computers? A normal Spectrum 48k proggy can be loaded flawlessly in less than 30 seconds!!!
Of course I have already tried the "max speed" option on EPTE, which is good, but is this REALLY the max speed that EP computers can handle?
As stated by the OTLA developer(s), this super-proggy is based on one ("slow but reliable") of the multiple turbo-routines as can be found on the K7ZX turbo loading utility for the ZX Spectrum. Unfortunately the K7ZX link seems not to be working anymore:
http://personal.auna.com/casariche/k7zx4/k7zx4.htm..., but it originally contained MUCH faster turbo loading routines for the Speccy, than the one used in OTLA and it can still be downloaded (without source code) here:
http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/k7zx.zipAnyway, the source code of the last OTLA version (2.2) is freely available, could one or some of you, experienced EP programmers have a look, please?
I believe that most EP enthusiasts who own/use a real EP machine rather than an emulator, cannot easily find/afford disk controllers etc, nor have real -original or not- cassettes, so the main solution is loading .tap files through EPTE or the special version of Tapir.
Wouldn't it be nice to develop a separate OTLA-like seriously fast and effective tape turbo-loading utility for use with the EP .tap files, or even integrate an EP option in the already existing OTLA? Or is it too much what my idea suggests?
Cheers!!!