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[baza]

Dan Jones wrote:
> James Turner wrote:
> 
>> Philip Harper wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Well, I'll be 29 next week, and I can remember when command lines and
>>> text menus were all we had, anyone remember the command to load from the
>>> 5 1/4 drive on the commodore 64....it went something like load *, (list
>>> of cryptic characters I can't remember)....
>>>   
>> It's been a while, but I believe:
>> DLOAD "<filename>"
>>  
>>
> If you had that on the '64 you must have had a BASIC-extender or 
> something, or a later drive (1571 perhaps?  I remember my 3rd-party 
> Enhancer 2000 drive from Evesham behaved like a not-100%-compatible 
> 1541drive, and came with a mains pack from an Oric machine (honestly)).
> 
> Anyhoo, I didn't have that command.  The BASIC on the '64 was, well, crap.
> 
> ...and that's me being generous.  :)
> 
> poke 53280,0 to set the background colour black, indeed...
> 
>> Will load the specified file from disc. (Short for "Disk load" of
>> course). Alternately:
>>
>> LOAD "<filename>"[,<device>,[<load-action>]]
>>
>> e.g.:
>>
>> LOAD "*",8,1
>>
>> * in the filename acts as a wildcard character, and specifying a
>> filename of just * would load the first file stored on the device.
>> <device> should be 8 for floppy disc, defaults to using tape drive if
>> absent. Load action of 1 will load to a memory address stored in the
>> file's meta data, default behaviour is to use BASIC program workspace if
>> absent.
>>  
>>
> Indeed.
> 
> Even worse was the procedure to format disks:
> 
> open 15,8,15,"n0:<disk name>,<identifier>"
> close 15
> 
> /Really/ transparent and easy to use.
> 
> Not.  OTOH, I actually really loved that machine.
> 
> I can't believe I still remember some of this stuff.  I wish someone 
> would invent a Cache delete for the human brain sometimes.
> 

More info than anyone would ever need 
http://www.classic-games.com/commodore64/drives.html

Baz

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