Turbo Booster?

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Door Manuel

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24-05-2008, 11:38

hi,

Does someone have any idea what "Turbo Booster" is? It's a program for MSXturboR, but I have never heard of it and I wondered if someone can tell me more about it... See http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/1767

(It seems some kind of tool to boot more quickly... but I think it already is quite quick on turboR...)

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Van karloch

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24-05-2008, 11:56

Quite pointless to boot even quicker in the turboR Tongue

Van Manuel

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26-05-2008, 20:26

I now think that it is a tool to boot games faster. Maybe it even uses the RAM of the turboR to form a kind of disk cache. If you can read Japanese, check the new photo material on the above GenMSX link! (Thanks to rklok!)

Van Sky_hawk

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30-06-2008, 11:02

My Turbo-R GT boots quite slowly compared to my other msx2 computers, it takes about 10-12 seconds from the time the MSX2 logo appears until it reaches the basic prompt.
Are there settings I can change (maybe msxview related?) to speed this up?

Van HRA!

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30-06-2008, 15:44

As long as a screen shot is seen, it is visible to the tool which starts the software for MSX2(Z80) in the high-speed(R800) mode of turboR.

Van Jipe

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30-06-2008, 15:46

the boot of the Turbo-R GT is fast if the second drive is connected ;-)

Van vasmsx

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12-10-2008, 03:02

I had the "Turbo booster" cartridge card once long time ago in my NMS 8280 for my computer draphics and tytler. I believe that was 20 years ago. It speeded up my computer at least 2x faster. This card doesn't work any more, but it was using a 7.1Mhz crystal in it.
One thing I remeber from it, when It died I took it apart and I saw the PCB. It had extra memory chip, a small prosessor and a ROM chip, that I hardly can remember today any detail, but it worked good for 3 years. Today I don't even know what I did to it.

Van Manuel

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12-10-2008, 12:18

vasmsx: I don't think that thing is related to the Turbo Booster I'm talking about in this thread.

It sounds like you are talking about a 7MHz circuit, which can be put on your MSX mainboard. If it's really a separate cartridge, then it's something quite unusual!

Van dioniso

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12-10-2008, 13:08

I don't think that thing is related to the Turbo Booster I'm talking about in this thread.

I would say you are right. In the picture you can see the logo of Turbo Booster, in yellow, but four letters are in red: BOOT (I would say that has something to do with booting the computer...). And, in G-MSX, this tool is in the software section...

Van Manuel

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12-10-2008, 13:41

dioniso: click on the 'release' tab...

Van dioniso

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12-10-2008, 14:28

dioniso: click on the 'release' tab...

Uauh! It's a disk... LOL!

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