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- From: lou_timmerman@sunshine.net (sn0077@sunshine.net)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Commodore-64
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 17:35:54 GMT
- Organization: Online at Wimsey
- Message-ID: <883.6604T1433T1932@sunshine.net>
- References: <1996Jan31.154620.1@animal>
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- >Hi,
-
- >I realize this is the Amiga users group but I don't know where to post this
- >message. This is the closest thing I could find. Ignorance is bliss?
-
- >I have an old commodore-64 that I need help with. It has a 5.25 floopy disk
- >drive that I would like to load programs from. What are the steps to do this?
- > When I go to load any program and run it the end result is:
- > "Please press play on tape". I haven't used the machine in years and have no
- >documentation. The commands I am currently using are:
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- >LOAD "$", 8
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- >-> Ready
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- >LIST
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- >-> listing of floopy directory.
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- >LOAD "filename", 8
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- >-> Ready
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- >What do I do next? All my next attempts wind up as either "Syntax error" or
- >"Please press play on tape"
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- if i remember correctly, and its been years and years, the correct syntax is:
- LOAD "filename",8,# (where # is the drive ie:1 or 2)
- but as i say its been years.
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- Howard
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