Commodore 16 User Manual page 20

STEP 3 Close the protective "door" on the disk drive after you Insert
the disk.
STEP 4 Type:
DLOAD "program
4-
name"
Specific name of the program to
be LOADS.
(To save lime, you could press FUNCTION KEY 2 and type in the
program name and me second quote marks.)
STEP 5 Press the MGM key. The disk spins and your screen says:
SEARCHING FOR program name
FOUND program name
LOADING
READY.
Cursor
STEP 6 Your software is now ready to use. Type RUN and press the
UMW key to start the program.
II the red light on the disk drive blinks atter the DLOAD is finished,
something went wrong. Type:
?DSS (and hit 1M101111
to find out what went wrong.
Examples of DLOAD commands:
IMPORTANT: 00 NOT HEADER A DISK THAT HAS ANYTHING ON
IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO ERASE THE ENTIRE DISK. HEADERING
ERASES EVERYTHING ALREADY ON A DISK.
The format for the HEADER command Is:
HEADER "disk name- .Udevice#ILIi.d.#1,Ddrive#
• The name you use is the name of the entire disk. Give the disk any
name up to 16 characters.
• Udevice
//
specifies which peripheral device number (which disk
drive unit), and defaults to 8 (primary disk drive).
• The i.d. is the letter I and any two letters and/or numbers, like I21,
IRS, etc Give the disk any i.d. you want, but you should give every
disk a different i.d to avoid contusion. (Note. the first character
must riot be F).
• if you have a dual drive (a disk drive with two slots for disks), you
should specily the drive number with a 0 or 1. Drive number is
ALWAYS included in the command. even with a single drive (DO).
ARE YOU SURE?
As soon as you press IMMIX after typing the HEADER command,
your Commodore 16 asks ARE YOU SURE? This is to give you a last
chance to change your mind. It you want to go ahead and header the
disk. type YES or Y and press =VW. If you decide not to header the
disk. type NO or N and press :WOW.
Here are some examples of HEADER commands
HEADER "LETTERS",107,D I
HEADER "FINANCES",U8,1S3,D0
r
I
DLOAD
DLOAD FILES
DLOAD "SOP"
Headering A Diskette
LOADS the 1st program on the disk.
LOADs a disk program called FILES.
LOADs the first program on the disk that
begins with the letters SOF.
NOTE: If you want to erase all files on a disk (as opposed to
formatting a blank disk), use the HEADER command without an i.d.
number. This in effect scratches (erases) all the
tiles mat
were on
mat disk.
Headering prepares a new BLANK disk for use Any blank disk must
be formatted before it may be used. by using the HEADER command.
Now that you know how to HEADER a disk, you're ready to use disks to
write and save programs on your Commodore 16 (or any other
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