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- MORE COMPUTER TIPS
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- From Howald 91406
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- I found out why I was having so much
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- trouble with FASTLOAD. I bought a
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- FASTLOAD cartridge when I bought my
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- 1541 last December. I had an early
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- version of it. I just bought another
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- and !WOW! is it different!! This one
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- has a bigger menu and it does every-
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- thing I want to do.
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- From Jenkins 76903
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- I have a comment that I hope you
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- will pass on to Larson 98371. In
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- Issue 14's Influx, I noticed she was
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- having trouble with copying her
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- LOADSTAR disks. She might be using the
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- wrong name for her copied disks. I
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- found out, from copying my own disks,
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- that the name of the disk has to be:
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- 'LOADSTAR #XX S-X' where XX and X are
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- the issue number and the side number
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- of the disk. That may be part of her
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- problem.
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- I would like to recommend the
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- Seikosha GP-550 CD printer. It's
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- marketed by Apropros Technology and
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- is a fine piece of equipment. It
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- offers a variety of features such as:
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- several fonts, variable space
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- printing, tractor or friction feed,
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- and more. I also have it from
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- Batteries Included that PaperClip
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- fully supports this printer.
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- From Kober 75831
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- Information for Shaffer 50312
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- There is no valid WEDGE command
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- @UI. The command most likely intended
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- was @UJ, which does in fact, reset the
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- disk drive. This can also be written
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- as @U:. These are two of the USER
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- commands explained in the 1541 USER'S
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- MANUAL.
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- The @* command in DOSPLUS is the
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- same as the WEDGE's @UJ or @U:, except
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- that a short time delay has been
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- included in the @* routine to allow
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- reading in a portion of the drive's
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- DOS version message.
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- This message is in the ROM of the
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- drive, and can be read as follows:
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- 1. LOAD and RUN DOSPLUS or the
- C-64 WEDGE.
- 2. Turn the disk drive off, and
- then back on.
- 3. Enter @ and RETURN.
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- This message is read by the drive
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- anytime the drive is reset, as error
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- number 73 DOS MISMATCH. Since the
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- drive is reset when it is first turned
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- on, and entering @ will read the disk
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- error message, this will then read the
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- DOS version message.
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- This error will also be encountered
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- when trying to write to a disk that
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- has been software write protected with
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- the 'WRITE GUARD' program found on
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- LOADSTAR #14.
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- Here is a short BASIC program that
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- is identical to the ML routine found
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- in DOSPLUS that is executed when @* is
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- entered.
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- 10 OPEN 1,8,15
- 20 PRINT#1,''UJ''
- 30 FOR I=1 TO 1000:NEXT
- 40 GET#1,A$:IF A$<>CHR$(67) THEN 40
- 50 PRINT A$;
- 60 GET#1,A$:IF A$<>CHR$(44) THEN 50
- 70 CLOSE 1:END
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- To explain what was meant in the
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- program DOSPLUS concerning the ability
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- to UN-NEW a BASIC program even after
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- entering SYS 64738, the following is
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- offered.
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- To UN-NEW a BASIC program (after
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- entering SYS 64738), follow this
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- sequence (with DOSPLUS loaded):
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- 1. Enter SYS 52224 (This resets
- DOSPLUS).
- 2. Enter @#8 (This resets the
- default device to 8).
- 3. Enter @U (This UN-NEWs the
- BASIC program).
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- Should any further information be
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- wanted, I may be contacted directly
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- by mail at:
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- R.W. Bob Kober
- P.O. Box 181
- Buffalo, Texas 75831
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