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- H O M E T O W E R N E W S
- by Dave Moorman
-
-
- Several Home Tower users have
- asked for some advice on how to
- include more issues of LOADSTAR on the
- Tower.
-
- For various reasons, 64HDriver --
- the browser program for the Home Tower
- -- was limited to accessing issues 1
- through 199. Changing the innards of
- the program is not for the faint
- hearted, which I am right now! But
- there is another way to quickly access
- issues of LOADSTAR. (I just stopped
- writing this to check it out. The
- process is incredibly [easy]!)
-
- 1. Boot up the Home Tower and
- 64HDriver (LOAD"64:*",15 <RETURN>
- and <RUN>).
-
- 2. Navigate to the subdirectory where
- you want to keep your LOADSTARS.
-
- 3. Put your LOADSTAR disk in the Home
- Tower's 3.5 inch drive. Press <BACK
- ARROW> and choose "1581". Choose
- "1581 > D81". Type in a name (LS###
- would do) and press <RETURN>.
- 1581Copy will put the issue on your
- hard disk.
-
- 4. Put the Right Menu cursor on the
- LOADSTAR D81 file and press
- <RETURN>.
-
- You should now see the LOADSTAR
- Directory. The next part is the magic!
-
- 5. Press <BACK ARROW>, move the Left
- Menu cursor down to "Send C=DOS"
- and press <RETURN>.
-
- 6. We will assume the issue is LS 200.
- Type:
-
- ap200
-
- and press <RETURN>.
-
- 7. Now, when you want to get to LS 200
- quickly, choose "Send C=DOS", type:
-
- cp200
-
- and press <RETURN>.
-
- To start the issue, choose "START"
- and press <Shift-RETURN><Y>.
-
- The "partition" function of 64HDD
- can use numbers up to 899. 64HDriver
- has Partitions from 2 to 63. And
- the system uses 1, 64, 256, and 900+.
- You can use all the rest!
-
- For a complete LOADSTAR Library,
- copy the latest version (on LS 210)
- and the "lsl.*" files to a handy place
- on your hard drive. Perhaps you will
- want to give it a partition number of
- 199. Your choice.
-
- Once you are connected to the Home
- Tower, you can call up a "partitioned"
- issue in immediate mode. Type:
-
- OPEN1,[dv],15,"cp[n]":close1
-
- where [dv] is the Tower device,
- and [n] is the partition number.
- Then
- LOAD"*",dv,1
-
-
- Nick Copland has built a powerful
- drive emulator and we can make the
- "mighty" PC into our C= slave!
-
- DMM
-
-
-