8-bitters and multi-whatever - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Sep 2007

------------Original Message(s):
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 8-bitters and multi-whatever

On 9/12/07, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
...
  On Wednesday 12 September 2007 14:31, Ethan Dicks
wrote:
  On 9/12/07, M H Stein <dm561 at
torfree.net> wrote:
 > From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
 >
 > >Since I couldn't afford an IEEE-488 disk drive... I fabricated my own
 > >nybble-with-handshake cable between the user ports of the PET and the
 > >C-64...
 >
 > You mean you didn't just make a simple cassette "null modem" cable?

  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.

-ethan
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Reply:

And of course there's the venerable Shift Run/Stop sequence; I wonder at what
point that changed from loading the first tape program to the first one on disk..

m