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┼┌ ╠OADER (├)1993 BY ─AVID ╙CHMOLL: ─╩╙
┼┌ ╠OADER IS A MENU SYSTEM DESIGNED TO HELP YOU ACCESS YOUR MOST USED
PROGRAMS BY A SINGLE MENU FROM ANY DISK DRIVE, AS LONG AS THE PROGRAM
IS ON THE DRIVE REQUESTED. ┴LTHOUGH THE PROGRAM CONCEPT WAS WRITTEN TO
HELP ├═─ ─RIVE USERS, ┼┌ ╠OADER WORKS JUST FINE ON NORMAL ├OMMODORE
DISK DRIVES. ┼┌ ╠OADER OPERATES IN ALL MODES: 64 AND 128, 40 OR 80
COLUMN, AS WELL AS SLOW OR FAST MODE. ┼┌ LOADER CAN CALL A 64 PROGRAM
FROM THE 128 SIDE MENU AND DROP INTO 64 MODE TO EXECUTE IT.
╘O LOAD ┼┌ ╠OADER YOU HAVE THREE OPTIONS: BOOT THE PROGRAM, LOAD THE
STARTUP FILE "MENU.BAS" AND RUN IT, OR LOAD THE MACHINE LANGUAGE FILE
"MENU.ML" AND THEN SYS 7400 - (BANK 0 OR 15 AND ╟RAPHIC ├LR ISSUED
BEFORE CALLING). ╔ SUGGEST YOU EITHER BOOT IT, AS IN BOOT U8 (OR WHAT
EVER DEVICE NUMBER YOU NEED OR CALL THE BASIC LOADER). ╥AMLINK OWNERS
CAN USE THE AUTO FILE OPTION AS WELL AS THE BOOT OPTION - ╔ USE BOTH,
THE AUTO FILE AT POWERUP AND RESET, AND THE BOOT AT OTHER TIMES.
╦EYPRESS ╧PTIONS:
╥UN/╙TOP: ┼XITS THE MAIN MENU BACK TO BASIC.
┼DIT FUNCTION: CALLED BY THE "E" KEYPRESS. ╘O USE ┼┌ ╠OADER YOU MUST
ANSWER THE PROMPTS WHEN THE EDIT FUNCTION IS CALLED. ╘O CLEAR THE
ENTIRE ENTRY, BLANK OUT THE MENU NAME AND RESAVE. ╫HEN IN EDIT YOU ARE
ASKED THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
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═ENU ╬AME: ┴NY MEANINGFUL NAME CAN BE USED, AS THIS IS FOR YOUR USE NOT
THE SYSTEM - THE REASON FOR THIS IS SOME ACTUAL FILE NAMES ARE STRANGE
AND MAY NOT MEAN MUCH ON A MENU.
╨ROGRAM MODE: (64/128/ALL), 64 OR 128 MODE, ALL USES THE CURRENT
COMPUTER MODE. ╫HEN A 64 PROGRAM IS CALLED FROM THE 128 SIDE OF THE
COMPUTER, THE COMMAND "U0>M0" IS ALSO SENT TO THE DRIVE ACCESSED. ╘HE
REASON FOR THIS IS BECAUSE SOME 64 PROGRAMS EXPECT A 1541 DRIVE AND IF
YOU ARE LOADING OFF A 1571 IN 1571 MODE THE PROGRAM WON'T LOAD. ╘HE
COMMAND IS ALWAYS SENT, MAINLY BECAUSE DRIVE TYPE ISN'T KNOWN BY THE
MENU, BUT THIS ISN'T A PROBLEM, BECAUSE THE COMMAND ISN'T RECOGNIZED BY
OR ACTED ON BY OTHER DRIVE TYPES.
╙CREEN ╙IZE: (40/80/ALL), 40 COLUMNS IN EITHER COMPUTER MODE, OR 80
COLUMNS ON THE 128, ALL WILL USE THE CURRENT SCREEN SIZE.
┬OOT ╨ROGRAM: (┘/╬), BOOTS THE SPECIFIED DRIVE. ╘HIS ONLY WORKS IF
THERE IS A BOOT SECTOR WRITTEN ON TRACK 1, SECTOR 0 OF THE REQUESTED
PARTITION OR DISK AND YOU ARE OPERATING IN 128 MODE.
╨ROGRAM NAME: ╘HE ACTUAL NAME OF THE PROGRAM FILE THAT STARTS THE
LOADING SEQUENCE, AS INDICATED BY THE PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION.
╨ROGRAM TYPE: (┬/═), ┬ASIC OR ═ACHINE ╠ANGUAGE PROGRAM. ┬ASIC ╨ROGRAMS
ARE LISTABLE BY LOADING AND TYPING "LIST", WHILE ═ACHINE ╠ANGUAGE
PROGRAMS ARE NOT AND WILL CAUSE A CORRUPTED SCREEN IF THEY ARE LISTED.
╚OWEVER IT IS VERY COMMON TO HAVE ┬ASIC LOADERS THAT SETUP, LOAD AND
START ═ACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS.
╙YS ADDRESS: (0-65535), THE STARTING ADDRESS FOR THE ═ACHINE ╠ANGUAGE
╨AGE 1
┼┌ ╠OADER (├)1993 BY ─AVID ╙CHMOLL: ─╩╙
PROGRAM. ╘HIS IS ONLY USED FOR NON AUTO STARTING APPLICATIONS IN 64 OR
128 MODE, OR WHEN YOU WANT TO START AT AN ADDRESS OTHER THAN THE
LOADING ADDRESS. ╫HEN ACCESSING A ├═─ DRIVE, IT IS NORMALLY ASSUMED YOU
ARE ALSO RUNNING A ╩IFFY─OS EQUIPPED COMPUTER AS WELL AND THE ╩IFFY─OS
WEDGE COMMANDS ARE USUALLY USED TO START THE PROGRAM. ╫HEN THIS
HAPPENS, THE SYS ADDRESS IS NEVER USED, AND YOU SHOULD LEAVE IT BLANK,
AS THE WEDGE COMMANDS AUTOMATICALLY SYS TO THE LOADING ADDRESS. ╘O
OVERRIDE THE STARTING ADDRESS WITH THE ╩IFFY─OS WEDGE COMMANDS, JUST
ENTER A SYS ADDRESS. ╦NOWING THE SYS ADDRESS OF A PROGRAM IS USUALLY
NOT VERY OBVIOUS THOUGH, AND THAT IS WHY ═╠ PROGRAMS USUALLY HAVE A
BASIC LOADER PROGRAM.
┬ANK ╬UMBER: (0-15), ╧N THE 128, THIS IS THE BANK TO LOAD AND SYS TO,
BANK 0 OR 15 ARE THE MOST COMMON, WITH BANK 15 RECOMMENDED, BUT BANKS 0
THROUGH 15 ARE SUPPORTED. ╘HIS HAS NO EFFECT ON 64 MODE.
─EVICE ╬UMBER: (4-30), THE DEVICE NUMBER THE PROGRAM RESIDES ON.
─EVICE NUMBERS 4-7 WERE ALLOWED IN CASE YOU HAVE ╥AMDOS ACTIVE AND HAVE
DEFINED ONE OF THEM AS AN ACTIVE DEVICE NUMBERS. ┬UT BEWARE, IF YOU
HAVE A PRINTER ACTIVE AS DEVICE 4, IT WILL SHOW UP AND CRASH THE MENU
IF YOU TRY TO ACCESS IT IN ANY WAY - IN OTHER WORDS TO ALLOW THIS
FLEXIBILITY, THE USER HAD BETTER BE AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING. ╔
PERSONALLY USE ╥AMDOS AS DEVICE 7, UNFORTUNATELY A LOT OF SOFTWARE
WON'T ACCESS IT SINCE IT IS < 8. ╥AMDOS HOWEVER CAN BE SERIAL DEVICE
4-30.
├═─ ─EVICE: (┘/╬), ┴SKS IF YOU ARE LOADING THE PROGRAM FROM A ├═─ DRIVE
DEVICE - ╥AMLINK, ╞─X000, ╚ARD ─RIVE OR ╥AMDRIVE, AND IS MAINLY USED TO
DETERMINE IF THE PARTITION AND SWAP PROMPTS ARE NEEDED. ╚OWEVER, THIS
PROMPT ALSO DETERMINES IF THE ╩IFFY─OS WEDGE COMMANDS ARE USED TO START
THE PROGRAM. ╔NPUTING A YES WHEN YOU ARE NOT ACCESSING A ├═─ DRIVE WILL
CAUSE NO HARM AS LONG AS THE PARTITION PATH, NUMBER, AND SWAP PROMPTS
ARE BLANK - ACTUALLY THIS WAS AN UNEXPECTED FEATURE.
╨ARTITION NUMBER: (1-254), THE ├═─ PARTITION NUMBER THE PROGRAM RESIDES
ON. ╒SE THE ACTUAL PARTITION NUMBER AND NOT ZERO AS THE DEFAULT
PARTITION.
╨ARTITION PATH: ╘HE ├═─ SUBDIRECTORY PATH NEEDED TO ACCESS THE PROGRAM
FROM THE ROOT PARTITION - IF THE PROGRAM IS IN THE ROOT PARTITION LEAVE
IT BLANK. ╙INCE THIS COMMAND IS ONE OF THE MOST LIKELY TO CAUSE
CONFUSION AS TO WHAT INFORMATION IS NEEDED, THE GENERAL FORMAT IS SHOWN
BELOW:
NAME : IF PATH IS ONE DEEP.
NAME/NAME : IF PATH IS TWO DEEP.
NAME/NAME/NAME : IF PATH IS THREE DEEP.
╬OTE THAT THE PATH ACCEPTS ONLY 30 CHARACTERS TOTAL DUE TO SCREEN
LIMITATIONS, AND THAT YOU DO NOT START OR END WITH A SLASH CHARACTER.
╘HE SUBDIRECTORY PATH IS FOR THE NATIVE PARTITIONS AND NOT 1581
PARTITIONS.
╙WAP ─EVICE: (┘/╬), ASKS IF YOU WANT TO SWAP EITHER 8 OR 9 IN AS THE
ACTIVE DEVICE NUMBER ON A ├═─ DEVICE? (┘/╬)
╙WAP DEVICE NUMBER: (8/9), SWAP SELECTION.
╨AGE 2
┼┌ ╠OADER (├)1993 BY ─AVID ╙CHMOLL: ─╩╙
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╬OW YOU WILL BE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE DATA, AND NORMALLY YOU
WILL SAY YES, UNLESS YOU HAVE MADE A MISTAKE OR HAVE OTHER CHANGES TO
MAKE. ╘HE ANSWERS ARE STORED WITHIN THE PROGRAM ITSELF, SO THE ENTIRE
PROGRAM IS ACTUALLY RE-SAVED. ╬OTE THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS THE SAVE
OPTION FOR THE DATA TABLE AND COLORS, AS THE ENTIRE PROGRAM IS SAVED
WITH THIS OPTION. ╘HIS SAVE IS THE ONE YOU WILL BE USING MOST OF THE
TIME. ╘HE CURRENT DEVICE NUMBER, PARTITION, OR SUBDIRECTORY IS USED -
YOU CAN BE DOUBLE CHECK THE CONFIGURATION WITH A DIRECTORY USING THE
─OS WEDGE.
╬OT ALL OPTIONS ARE GIVEN TO YOU DEPENDING ON YOUR ANSWERS, AND YOU CAN
ALWAYS ENTER RETURN OR SPACES TO ANY ANSWER - THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN
IS IT WON'T WORK RIGHT, IF THIS HAPPENS JUST RELOAD AND EDIT THE ENTRY
UNTIL THE ERROR GOES AWAY. ┼RROR CHECKING IS DONE DURING THE EDITING TO
ALLOW ONLY VALID ENTRIES, BUT MENU NAME, FILE NAMES, AND PATHS ARE
EXCEPTIONS TO THE ERROR CHECKING. ╘HE SYS ADDRESS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF
SOMETHING THAT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO LEAVE BLANK, AS IT IS ONLY USED FOR
NON AUTOSTARTING ═╠ PROGRAMS ONLY - IT IS INCLUDED IN CASE ALL ELSE
FAILS TO START THE PROGRAM! ╫ILD CARDS ARE SUPPORTED IN FILE NAMES.
┼XECUTE: ╘O EXECUTE YOUR SELECTION JUST CURSOR TO THE SELECTION AND
PRESS THE SPACE BAR OR RETURN.