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18 Jul
18 Jul
4:54 p.m.
New subject: Atari 400 Frogger help!?!?!
I recently picked up an Atari 400 computer... and have the version of
Sega's Frogger for it. It's on cassette tape, and I am having some
problems loading it. I know some loading commands from a quick look at the
manual, but am still not able to get the tape loaded. I eventually get
errors using three different load types: CLOAD, ENTER "C:", and LOAD
"C:"
-- I think these are the three common types of loading procedures. I am
sure this tape is machine language, and am wondering if there are some
special loading procedures for machine language, or this Frogger tape in
particular. I have been successful in loading the other tapes with it,
which are BASIC programs. On Frogger, I get the proper 'beeps' back that
it is reading the tape and then errors that the manual says are bus and
serial inteference that the tape may be faulty. I am wondering if this
might also be due to an inproper loading procedure.
Can any of you help me out!!
Thanks in advance!
CORD
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6:01 p.m.
New subject: Atari 400 Frogger help!?!?!
Cord Coslor wrote:
I recently picked up an Atari 400 computer... and have the version of
Sega's Frogger for it. It's on cassette tape, and I am having some
problems loading it. I know some loading commands from a quick look at the
manual, but am still not able to get the tape loaded. I eventually get
errors using three different load types: CLOAD, ENTER "C:", and LOAD
"C:"
A quick look at one of the Atari books indicates that after using the
correct load type (sometimes determined from trial and error!), the
speaker should beep once. After that, press play on the cassette
recorder and again press enter. At that point, the cassette should
start to load and you should be able to hear the data through your TV
speaker.
According to one of the cassette programs I have, if you have trouble
loading the first program on the cassette, rewind the cassette all the
way. Set the cassette counter to 000, then fast forward to 002 or 003
and CLOAD from that point.
I suspect the idea behind the above procedure is to get past the tape
leader before trying to CLOAD. I might add the cassette those
instructions came from is PDI's "Word Search: Geography (Atari Basic)."
Any errors at this point would probably point to a damaged tape or tape
drive.
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