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This reminds me of C64 tape loaders or "turboa" that need to load the program to RAM. https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/turbotape.html https://ww

This reminds me of C64 tape loaders or "turboa" that need to load the program to RAM. https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/turbotape.html https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/turbotape.htm... Also let's not forget Bill Gates's 17 bytes loader https://hackaday.com/2017/03/24/doing-it-with-fewer-bytes-than-bill-gates/ https://hackaday.com/2017/03/24/doing-it-with-fewer-bytes-th...

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Anyone else remember the PET Rabbit [1]? "Load, Save, Verify, Execute 8 K in 38 seconds versus PETs 2 Minute 45 seconds, plus more!" There was a newer version that I had which was called the ROM Rabbit vs. this version that you had to load and save each time. [1] http://archive.6502.org/publications/pet_paper/pet_paper_v3_i8_i9_i10.pdf http://archive.6502.org/publications/pet_paper/pet_paper_v3_...