multiload
A computer program that loads its code and data in a number of separate stages, typically to work around memory constraints.
Noun
- A computer program that loads its code and data in a number of separate stages, typically to work around memory constraints.
- The finished game will be a multiload, with the first load allowing players to select which aircraft they'd like to fly. - 1989 May, “A Rock Star Ate My Computer”, in Crash, number 64:
- If it is a multiload game, then you will probably only get the main game part, not the levels […] […] sometimes possible to obtain the loader code, and change it to a suitable format that the emulators will use (called...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English load English multiload From multi- + load.
Forms
Verb
- To load in separate stages.
- The best games like Midnight Resistance made use of the 128 memory and did not multiload (unlike other discontinuous RAM sized machines, like the C64/128 or the Beeb, many Spectrum games used the 128 memory if...