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- Commodore VIC 1541 Tutorial Part 3
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- Okay, now you have a formatted disk
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- and you want to put stuff on it. With
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- the Manager, to save the BASIC program
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- you currently have in your computer,
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- just type:
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- _file name
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- where "file name" is a name for the
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- file. It can be up to 16 characters
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- long, with the same restrictions on
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- legal characters as for the disk name.
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- When the save is completed, the system
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- will print the Disk Error Status IM-
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- MEDIATELY after the file name. If all
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- went well, that should be
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- "00, OK,00,00"
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- An example:
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- _STAR TREK
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- (saves the current program under
- the name STAR TREK. When done,
- the display should read:)
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- _STAR TREK
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- SAVING STAR TREK00, OK,00,00
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- READY.
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- To LOAD a program from the disk,
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- you have three choices:
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- 1. /file name
- 2. ^file name
- 3. %file name
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- Form 1 just loads a BASIC program
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- into the normal BASIC memory space,
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- erasing any program that might have
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- been in memory before.
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- Form 2 does the same thing, but
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- then RUNs the program as soon as it is
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- LOADed.
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- Form 3 loads a machine language
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- program or other memory image file at
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- the same place it was SAVEd from. It
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- is used for LOADing a program that you
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- would otherwise have to use LOAD"name"
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- ,8,1 on.
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- Here are some examples:
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- /STAR (Loads "STAR")
- ^STAR (Loads and runs "STAR")
- %ROUTINES (Loads the machine-
- language "ROUTINES")
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- Next month, we will discuss how to
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- find out what files are on a disk, how
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- to read the Error Channel, how to re-
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- move a file from disk, and how to in-
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- ititalize the disk if you are not sure
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- if the "id" is the same as that of the
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- disk you last used. We will also dis-
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- cuss more on file names in general,
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- and tell how to rename a file. Until
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- then, have a nice data!
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