On 9/12/07, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:38, Ethan Dicks
wrote:
Just a passive cable? Do you have any special notes,
or was it just
SAVE "FOO", 1 and LOAD "FOO", 1?
I was wondering if you'd want the ",1" in there or not myself.
In this case, the '1' is to designate cassette drive 1 (PETs have two,
C-64s have one). It's probably optional, but I included it out of
habit.
Actually I never did all that much with cassette on any c= stuff (though I do
have one), and never thought about there being two of them attached to one
machine...
The C-64 does not have a device at address 2, IIRC. Original PETs
used 1 as the internal (keyboard mounted) cassette, and 2 as the
external cassette. Later PETs swapped that, with 1 accessible from
the rear port, and 2 only accessible if you opened the case.
Few folks had two datasette drives on a PET, if for no other reason,
because the drives were originally $70-$100 each. It _would_ have
been handy for me to have two tape drives, but only because I did
everything on that PET with tape (which has since been converted to
tape files and disk images and I can still fire up with VICE).
Too often I typed that ,1 in when executing a disk
command, and there were
times when that wasn't wanted or necessary, and didn't work like I expected.
*Nods* Yep... that was a huge shift for me when moving from the PET
to the C-64 - getting used to appending ",8" to everything.
-ethan