Flyer firmware version 1.1.5 is now available and has JiffyDOS support among other things. Check out the Flyer Firmware release notes page for specifics.

With the release of 1.1.5 I did some speed tests and want to share my results. I used the SX-64 Christmas demo for the benchmark program to load…

  • Stock 1541 and C64: 1 minute 55 seconds
  • Using Epyx FastLoad cartridge with Stock 1541 and C64: 32 seconds
  • JiffyDOS enabled 1541 and C64: 21 seconds
  • Flyer (no JiffyDOS) and C64 (JiffyDOS off): 1 minute 22 seconds
  • Flyer with JiffyDOS (C64 using JiffyDOS): 8 seconds

The end results are Flyer loads disks faster then a stock 1541 by 33 seconds and Flyer with JiffyDOS loads faster then a 1541 with JiffyDOS by 13 seconds. Pretty cool!

If you own a Flyer and also have JiffyDOS on any of your 8-bit Commodore computers, you’ll want to update to the latest 1.1.5 firmware.