Hello, * On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:36PM +0200 Anders Carlsson wrote: > Hm, doesn't the VIC-1540 have some rarely used feature with a USR > file named "&" that would automatically boot when turning on the > VIC-20? Unfortunately, it autoloads a file in the floppy drive, not in the computer. This autoboot-feature is there for the 1540 drive and early 1541 drives (the ROMs -01, -02 and -03) had this autoboot routine. Even the 2031 drive had it. The routine is at $E77F (in the 1540 and 1541 drives), IIRC. However, this feature was removed with the -05 ROMs of the 1541; later drives like the 1541C, 1541-II, 1570 and 1571 do not have it, either. > I've never had the chance to try it myself, so it is very > hazy memories. Otherwise * as mentioned would load the first (1) > file from the floppy disk. > > (1) In case you just loaded a file, would * load the same file > again? Again I have very hazy memories of reading that, but I never > tried it as well. Exactly. That's why the file ":*" or "0:*" (which specifies exactly the same) is a better choice: This is always the first file. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2013-04-05 18:00:05
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