How often we forget that not everyone knows the things we take for granted...
I suspect that this is the way everyone loaded programs back in 'the old days'
which is probably why the text-mode .BA files were normal and didn't cause
problems; kinda slow though, and you definitely want proper handshaking...
m
----- Original Message -----
From: Shaun M. Wheeler
To: Model 100 Discussion
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [M100] Legacy
Holy crap, I didn't know you could do that!
That would have saved me a lot of time and effort back in the day (before I
bought my NADSBox).
-Shaun
On May 11, 2016 2:51 AM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <jho...@pobox.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Gary Weber <m100l...@gweber.org> wrote:
> "download directly into basic"?
Yes, you can do things like this from the BASIC prompt:
Load "COM:98N1E"
Then just initiate an ASCII upload of a non-tokenized .BA file (plain
text) from the desktop PC that you're connected via null modem, and voila, you
can directly load into basic. Crazy, eh?
And LEGACY is so large it is the only way to load it. You can't load it to
ram first as a DO and then load into basic. You either have to tokenize it
first and load it as a binary BA or you have to load it straight into BASIC.
-- John.
