From: William Levak (wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org)
Date: 2008-09-03 23:50:05
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, raycomp wrote:
You also need a semicolon at the end of the PRINT# statement, otherwise
you will be sending a RETURN character at the end of each print statement.
> Ruud,
>
> There is a colon in your quotes with m-w statement
>
> --Ray
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Anders Carlsson wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried this program in x64 and got it to work after a while:
>>
>> 10 OPEN 1,8,15:FOR I=0 TO 10:PRINT I;
>> 20 PRINT#1,"M-W"CHR$(I)CHR$(5)CHR$(1)CHR$(I):NEXT
>> 25 PRINT:REM LINE BREAK
>> 30 FORI=0 TO 10:PRINT#1,"M-R"CHR$(I)CHR$(5)
>> 40 GET#1,A$:PRINTASC(A$+CHR$(0)):NEXT
>> 50 CLOSE 1
>>
>> Of course I need true drive emulation, but I also had to select a different
>> type of drive to get it to work first time, i.e. it defaulted to 1541 in
>> which it only returned 199. Then I changed to 1541-II where the program ran
>> fine and back to 1541 where it also ran OK. I don't know if the emulated
>> floppy drive needs to be enabled in some way. Some sources suggest that you
>> should initialize the drive (I0) before the M-W. Perhaps you could also try
>> to reset the drive (UJ) to be sure it is in a clean state?
>>
>> It is true though that when running the same program in xpet and 8250 drive
>> (using buffer $12), it hangs. I didn't immediately find any document with
>> the 8050/8250 memory map, but I assume you got the number correct, that the
>> drive indeed has a RAM buffer in that location?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> --
>> Anders Carlsson
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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