From 76703.4244@compuserve.com Tue Oct 27 03:50:59 1998
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.cbm
Subject: "TURBO.BIN", UUencoded
From: John Iannetta <76703.4244@compuserve.com>
Date: 26 Oct 1998 09:20:59 PST

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    This is "TURBO.BIN", UUencoded.  It is an old-timer by Eddie Carroll of
Ireland for the Commodore-64 and the 1541 drive.  The program is now Public
Domain.  Load and run the program to create two files, one named "!" and one
named "!.instructions".  The former is the executable; do a:

load"!",8,1 <RETURN>

to install a program that has several functions (described in the other file).
One of them makes all of your disk loads five times as fast.  Another gives you
a disk directory by typing in:

verify"$ <RETURN>

which does not affect any BASIC program in memory.  Also, you may type in:

verify <RETURN>

to display the error channel.

    This was the first program that Jim Butterfield uploaded to the CompuServe
CBMAPP forum.  There was a minor flaw in the text part, and I disassembled part
of the file.  I saw a text line that Carroll ended with a string of spaces; it
was followed by a routine that started with a LDY immediate.  So what did
Carroll do?  He replaced the last space ($20) with a shifted space ($A0), the
opcode for LDY immediate.  That saved a byte!  I doubt that Windows programmers
would appreciate such tactics.