fastloader

English

Etymology

fast + loader

Noun

fastloader (plural fastloaders)

1. (computing, historical) Synonym of turboload
   • 1996, W. and S. Young, “C64 Fastloader prob solved?”, in comp.emulators.cbm (Usenet):

     I'm still waiting for the entire fastloader problem to be solved on the emulators. Could somebody give me an update on whether an up-and-coming emulator will solve this.

   • 1999, Jason, “Target: Renegade - was Knight Lore & Alien 8”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

     The tape system could basically be told to work in any manner you wanted it to, fastloaders like Cyberload read the data in backwards and encrypted, run considerably faster than the stock loader and still only take about a tenth of the processors^[sic] time so other jobs can execute simultaneously.

   • 2007, James Newman, Iain Simons, 100 Videogames, page 63:

     Upon booting on the PC version, the game recreated the Commodore 64 loading screen and 'fastloader' coloured stripes. This knowing reference filled twenty-something gamers with a warm glow […]

Anagrams

• afterloads