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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Commodore-64
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 01:23:57 GMT
- Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI
- Message-ID: <2351.6606T1165T1699@execpc.com>
- References: <1996Jan31.154620.1@animal> <883.6604T1433T1932@sunshine.net>
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- On 02-Feb-96 17:35:54, sn0077@sunshine.net <lou_timmerman@sunshine.net> wrote:
- >>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:
-
- >>LOAD "$", 8
-
- >>-> Ready
-
- >>LIST
-
- >>-> listing of floopy directory.
-
- >>LOAD "filename", 8
-
- >>-> Ready
-
- >>What do I do next? All my next attempts wind up as either "Syntax error" or
- >>"Please press play on tape"
-
- >if i remember correctly, and its been years and years, the correct syntax is:
- >LOAD "filename",8,# (where # is the drive ie:1 or 2)
- > but as i say its been years.
-
- Not quite right. The number, if present, means load in binary (program)
- mode, rather than in text (Basic programs). The drive is number 8, 2nd drive
- is 9, etc. 4 is the printer if you have one.
-
- For bootable disks, the following command will ALMOST always load the
- program needed to start the thing:
-
- LOAD "*",8,1
-
- You may have to type RUN after this, if it loads but doesn't start to run
- right away.
-
- "*" is a wild card, and in this case, matches the first file on the disk.
- For almost all of the bootable disks, this first file is the one to start the
- thing.
-
- But if you've already accessed the disk, as best as I recall it will get the
- LAST file accessed. "$", the directory, is treated as a file., so it will end
- up loading it again.
-
- If the file is a basic program (letters .PRG perhaps; it really has been a
- long time since I looked at it), you don't need to put the ,1 at the end, and
- it may not work if you do it.
-
- Since the LIST command works, you should be able to run things off the disk.
-
- Load without the ,8 bit will try to load off a tape, which you probably
- don't have. Just press the RUN/STOP key to make it stop.
-
- <tsb> *Starfire*
- *-___________________________________________________________________-*
- Jeff Jones email:jeffsj@execpc.com *//* Amiga Lives!
- *TFG*Starfire*Design*Studio* *\\//* 1985-1994, born again 1995!
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