Hi, >> What happens if I type >> LOAD on an USR file? The same? > > More or less ;-) The difference is that you have to specify that you want to load USR file. Otherwise you get FILE TYPE MISMATCH error. Other than that - the same (AFAIR). I tried that yesterday evening using VICE 1.21 on Win32 and could _not_ reproduce that error. I saved a file using C1541 using ",u" and verified that it showed up as USR. Then I entered LOAD "MYFILE", 8 and experienced the same behaviour with a PRG file of the same conent: The system prints READY but I don't get a prompt anymore. I understand thios behaviour as the file in question doesn't have a valid load address in the first two bytes. >> And what about LOAD,* ? Does it load the first PRG file or load the >> first <whatever> file? > > Depends. It either loads the most recently accessed file or - if you are freshly initialised - the first PRG file. > To make sure you actually load the very first file, you put a colon before the asterisk. But then the file must be PRG or you get the familiar (already) error, unless you specify the type. Again I was _not_ able to reproduce that. Putting an USR file first on .D64 image and using the 'Autostart image' feature of VICE (which prints 'LOAD "*,8,1') the system was obviously trying to load the (bogus) USR file instead of a (valid) PRG file being the second in the image. I'd be happy if I could really understand these things for a reason beside pure curiosity: I need to put a data file first on a image (for certain reasons) and would like to keep the users (and especially the VICE autostart feature) from trying to load it and thus locking up their machine. Regards, Oliver ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Tue Mar 30 10:31:31 2010
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : 2010-03-30 10:31:33 CEST