[Coco] CLOAD without ?IO ERROR

[Steve Ostrom]

Aaron, what a nice little Coco gem !  This will come in handy in my 
archiving efforts.  Thanks !!

-- Steve --


Aaron Banerjee wrote:


>I guess this might be sort of a mundane topic, but I just thought I'd put

>it out here in case anyone besides me needed it:

>

>If you happen to have found a few old coco tapes, and for some reason set

>up your coco to read them to see what was there, you may find that many of

>your 20 year old tapes don't load properly.  If you were loading a BASIC

>program (via CLOAD), you'd get nothing.

>

>Should you really want to see this program, type in the following program

>(which is basically a CLOAD without ?IO ERROR):

>

>1 FOR X = 42136 TO 42301

>2 POKE X-21136, PEEK(X)

>3 NEXT X

>4 POKE 157,82

>5 POKE 158,8

>6 POKE 21075,33

>7 EXEC

>

>This works on Color BASIC 1.1, and Extended Color BASIC 1.0.  Not that

>anyone uses them anymore, but it is sort of a fun program.  Note that

>lines 4 and 5 define the exec vector -- that is, you could have deleted

>lines 4 and 5 and changed line 7 to EXEC 82*256 + 8.

>

>This little program is most certainly not the "be-all, end-all" of loading

>your unloadable programs off of tape.  You can (and probably will) get a

>lot of garbage in your BASIC programs, but at least you'll get

>something...

>

>             - Aaron

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