Using Programs; Loading Pre-Packaged Software; Load - Commodore 1541 User Manual

3. USING PROGRAMS
LOADING PREPACKAGED PROGRAMS
For those of you interested in using only prepackaged programs available on car
tridges, cassette, or disk, here's all you have to do:
Using your disk drive, carefully insert the preprogrammed disk so that the label on
the disk is facing up and is closest to you. Look for a little notch on the disk (it might
be covered with a little piece of tape). If you're inserting the disk properly, the notch
will be on the left side. Once the disk is inside, close the protective gate by pushing in
on the level. Now type LOAD "PROGRAM NAME", 8 and hit
The disk will make noise and your screen will say:
SEARCHING FOR PROGRAM NAME
LOADING
READY
When the word READY appears, just type RUN, and your prepackaged software
is ready to use.
LOAD
The BASIC commands used with programs on the disk drive are the same as the
commands used on the Commodore DATASSETTE™ recorder. There are a few extra
commands available for use with disks, however.
First of all, the program name must be given with each command. On a
DATASSETTE™, yOu could omit the program name in order to just LOAD the first
program there. On disk, since there are many different programs that are equally ac
cessible, the program name must be used to tell the disk drive what to do. In addition,
the disk drive's device number must be specified. If no device number is listed, the
computer assumes the program is on tape.
FORMAT FOR THE LOAD COMMAND:
LOAD name$,device#, command#
The program name is a string, that is, either a name in quotes or the contents of a
given string variable. Some valid names are: "HELLO", "PROGRAM #1", A$,
NAMES.
The device# is preset on the circuit board to be #8. If you have more than one
drive, see chapter 9 on how to change the device number. This book assumes that
you're using device number 8 for the disk drive.
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