ISEPIC was a Freeze cartridge released by Starpoint Software. Pronounced as Ice-Pick. I don’t think this was the first freeze cartridge, but it was one of the first. Again a ‘Freeze’ cartridge was great for by-passing start up copy protection. Basically you just wait until the program loads to the title or start screen and press the freeze button. The cartridge will save a ‘snaphot’ of the computers memory to disk that you can reload at a future time.
I also owned this one in the 80’s and still have it and the original box it came in.
I had a isepic version of Elite on disk. The isepic version loaded much faster than the original, why is that?
It because the snapshot is taken after the disk load and bypass all of the copy protection.
So then when you load the Isepic/Snapshot version, it’s not checking for the copy protection.
Elite used quite a few different forms of copy protection also.