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- Question and Answers part 1
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- From: McCarthy 19104
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- Help! How do I make backup copies
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- of your diskettes? I have tried
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- everything I know to get usable
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- copies. I have used the 1541 Backup
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- program from the Bonus Pack and tried
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- loading and saving each program.
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- While I have been able to copy side 1
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- of both the Best of Loadstar and #
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- 12, I have not been able to make
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- usable copies of side 2 of either
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- disk. Is there some secret I don't
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- know? I very much want to give my 8
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- year old his own set to run the games
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- etc, without worrying about him
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- messing up my original copies. Any
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- backup advice would be most helpful.
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- As soon as I can make copies of the
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- two disks I have, I want to subscribe
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- to Loadstar because it is a terrific
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- idea. I hope to hear from you soon.
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- Thank you.
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- > Some of the programs use machine
- > language routines. Therefore LOADing
- > then SAVEing these programs will
- > not work. Try using EasyCopy on
- > LOADSTAR issue #16. Another
- > possibility is 4-minute copy from
- > LOADSTAR #3. Or, if you have a Fast
- > Load (tm) cartridge, use its
- > built-in copy program. The 1541
- > Backup program changes the
- > destination disk's ID, making it
- > impossible for Loadstar to run.
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- From: The Stewart's 78550
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- We have owned our C-64 for about
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- 6 months, and just recently purchased
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- a 1541 Disk Drive, and an 803
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- printer. While shopping for the
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- printer, we found a dealer who
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- handles your Loadstar disks. Having
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- read about them in the Commodore
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- magazines, we bought two of them, #15
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- and #16.
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- Overall, we are very pleased.
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- However, we do have a few minor
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- difficulties. Please be kind enough
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- to help us, and be patient with our
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- novice status.
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- First, our printer skips the
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- bottom line of the first column when
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- we print anything using the Loadstar
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- word processor. Is this the printer,
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- the software, or are we doing
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- something wrong?
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- > We tested the word processor with
- > a MPS 803 and to our suprise it
- > behaved just as you said.
- > Starline works fine with the
- > VIC-1525, Gemini-10x, and Epson.
- > Sorry!! In the near future, we hope
- > to modify Starline to work with the
- > 803 also.
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- Also, do you still sell the COMAL
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- language disks for $10.00?
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- > As of December 1985, yes, we still
- > sell the COMAL 0.14 Sampler for that
- > price.
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- > For more information on COMAL and
- > COMAL users groups, contact
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- > COMAL USERS GROUP, U.S.A., LIMITED
- > 5501 Groveland Ter.
- > Madison
- > WI 53716
- >
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- From: Moore 22101
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- I want to first say that I am
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- very new to the Commodore
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- environment. I have had my Commodore
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- for less than 6 months.
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- I was exploring the program
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- A MAZING GRACE on side one of LOADSTAR
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- #15, and I ran into a problem which
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- due to the fact that I don't have any
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- programming experience as such, I
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- could not solve.
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- It seems that something happened
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- when I tried to create a maze and
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- print it out on my printer. It seems
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- that there was an error message that
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- appeared on the screen, but I didn't
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- really understand enough to know how
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- to get into the program and correct
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- it. Perhaps a little insight or
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- guideline in the right direction will
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- help me towards solving this
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- situation should it happen again. If
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- I remember correctly when I received
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- your disks, there was something I
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- read that said if there was a problem
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- with the disk that you would some way
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- be able to correct or help me solve
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- the dilemma. I'm not really sure
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- what I should be doing at this point.
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- Do I simply return the disk to you to
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- correct or what?
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- > It always helps to specify exactly
- > what the error was; and what were
- > the chain of events that caused the
- > error. However in this case, we may
- > have the solution. Try changing
- > line 680 to:
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- > 680M$=M$+CHR$(PK)+CHR$(PK):EE=FRE(0)
- >
- > This was an unfortunate goof on our
- > part. We hope it solves your
- > problem. Sorry for the
- > inconvenience.
- >
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- End of Question and Answer part 1
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