A month or so ago, we were given a large load of Commodore things - a C64,
2?1541-II, CP/M cartridge, mouse, GEOS, complete collection of "?tta bitar"
magazines, and games, lots of games.
Today I thought I'd try to transfer some games to disks, since I don't have
any good experiences with cassettes, though this was my first encounter with
turbo tapes, which do not require as much patience. Anyway, I first had some
luck with smaller games (turbo games occupying about 20 blocks), which could
just be loaded and then saved to disk. Others were simply too large for the
BASIC and any results at SAVEing resulted in out of memory errors.
Then we found a program called COPY 190 on one of the tapes. It looked very
promising, presenting the user with a menu allowing for transfers between
tapes and disks in any direction. Only it seemed to have one serious bug: it
didn't handle file names with spaces, and just about every file on the tapes
had spaces in them. Has anyone got any experience with this program or any
tips?
I first select "tape to disk", then the program prompts for a filename.
Entering ARCHON works fine. It asks whether the tape uses a turbo, which it
does, and then it waits for the tape to start. Then it finds ARCHON, which has
no spaces in it, loads it into memory and writes it to the floppy. However, if
I instead enter the name ARMY MOVES or "ARMY MOVES", it will find ARMY MOVES
and load, then it will find the following file and load that one, and so on,
without ever saving to floppy. Very frustrating.
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die aufgeh?rt hat, zu bestehen.
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Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 21:48:59 BST