[Coco] [Color Computer] Load files .bas

[John Guin]

If you have an untokeninzed BAS file (which would look like this):

5 REM A SILLY APP
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
15 PRINT "I WISH I WAS C"
20 GOTO 10

You can copy and paste into MESS.  Copy a few lines at a time, and then in
MESS click EDIT | Paste.  It's an incredible time saver for "generic" BAS
files scattered about the net.

My only complaint is that it tends to make a few mistakes now and then,
generally by dropping the first number or so of a line.

For instance, the program above could get "typed" in as:

5 REM A SILLY APP
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
5 PRINT "I WISH I WAS C"
20 GOTO 10

Which causes the original line 5 to be overwritten.  Needless to say, if
that happens in the middle of a 20K file, it's hard to locate all the
different lines that got over-written.  Keeping in small (about a screen at
a time) makes it easy to catch the mistakes as they happen.  Even taking
this bug into account, this is my favorite feature in MESS.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of James Dessart
Sent: 08 Ebrill 2005 14:10
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Load files .bas



On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Pierre Fortin wrote:

> My question is however simple, it is enough to a small answer.

To get anything into an emulator, it needs to be on a disk image, at least
the emulators I know about. I know how to use the built-in tool in MESS on
the Mac, but not for the other platforms, or other emulators. You could
also use the cocotools that the NitrOS-9 team have put together, there's a
nice little command-line utility to work with disk images.

James


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