Hi Paul,

 PE> My CMD drive is taking about 28 seconds to load Wizard of
 PE> Wor (66 blocks). On the 1541 it takes about 45 seconds.
 PE> (in order to play C64 games).  Is there anything I can do
 PE> to improve load time?

Yep.  Use an Action Replay Mk5 cartrdige and save it as a warp file.
Will reload in about 5-6 secs on a standard C64 + 1541. :)

Greg

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