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Commodore vic-1540 User Manual

Commodore vic-1540 User Manual (86 pages)

Brand: Commodore | Category: Floppy Disk Drive | Size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 General Information J

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- Front Panel
  11
- Back Panel
  11
- Interior Configuration
  11
- The Diskette
  11
- Specifications
  11
- Front Panel
  12
- Care of the VIC-1540
  14
- Care of the Diskettes
  14
- Unpacking the Disk Drive
  14
Chapter 2 Preparing to Use Your Disk Drive

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Chapter 3 Learning How to Use Your Floppy Disk Drive

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- The Block Availability Map (BAM)
  23
- The Disk Operating System (DOS)
  23
- Disk Maintenance Commands Jg
  23
  - New
    24
  - Initialization
    26
  - The Directory
    27
    
    Loads
    27
    
    Printing the Directory
    28
    
    VALIDATE T
    28
    
    Copy
    29
    
    Rename
    30
    
    Scratch
    30
Chapter 4 BASIC Commands for Data Handling

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- BASIC Commands Ascociated with Floppy Disk Drives
  32
  - SAVE (Writing a Program to a Diskette)
    33
  - Verify
    34
  - LOAD (Reading a Program from a Diskette)
    34
  - Open
    35
  - Close
    36
  - Closing the Command Channel
    37
  - Closing the Data Channel
    37
  - Print
    38
  - Input
    39
  - Get
    40
- Moving a Tape Program to Disk
  41
Chapter 5 Advanced Disk Programming

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- Commodore Disk Operating System (DOS)
  42
- Special OPEN and CLOSE Statements for Direct Access
  43
  - Block-Read
    45
  - Block-Write
    46
  - Block-Execute
    46
  - Buffer-Pointer
    46
  - Block-Allocate
    47
  - Block Free
    47
  - Memory
    48
    
    Memory-Write
    48
    
    Memory-Read
    48
    
    Memory-Execute
    49
  - User
    49
- Structure of Diskette
  50
- Standard Jump Table
  50
- Directory Format
  52
- Sequential Format
  53
- Program File Format
  53
  - 1540 Format. Expanded View of a Single Sector
    54
Chapter 6 Sequential File

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- To Create a Sequential File and Accessing
  56
- Example of a Sequential File Program 5Q
  57
Chapter 7 Random File

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Chapter 8 ERROR MESSAGES- PATTERN MATCHING FILE NAMES

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Appendix

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