Help to speed up disk access :)

[Allanon]

Hello all!
I'm taking a pause from my game project "The Gate" and I've started to code a Gopher client, almost completed and fully featured but I'm having a little problem with the command Print # that I'm using to save files to disk: it's really, really slow, something like 40Kb/s.
Saving a 1.8Mb file takes around 44 seconds.
I'm using a bank as a downlaod buffer, when it is filled I use Peek$ to get a string that I write to disk using Print #.

I was looking for an extension with improved performances and the only one I found digging around is the LDos extension by Niklas Sjoberg.
It seems to have a very handy function to save memory blocks to an opened file, hopefully faster that the stock Print #.
I was able to find only demo versions and I was wondering if any of you know if there is a registered version around, if it can be still purchased, or if there are any other extension with the feature I'm looking for.

Here are some shots of my Gopher client:



Thanks in advance for any help you may provide!

[Allanon]

Woah! I've tried to compile the program and the speed increase was incredible!

from 40kb/s -> 225kb/s