[Coco] CLOAD without ?IO ERROR

[Mark Marlette]

At 09:17 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:

Yes! A couple of REAL CoCo posts today....


>Aaron, what a nice little Coco gem !  This will come in handy in my 
>archiving efforts.  Thanks !!
>
>-- Steve --
>
>
>Aaron Banerjee wrote:
>
>>I guess this might be sort of a mundane topic, but I just thought I'd put
>>it out here in case anyone besides me needed it:
>>
>>If you happen to have found a few old coco tapes, and for some reason set
>>up your coco to read them to see what was there, you may find that many of
>>your 20 year old tapes don't load properly.  If you were loading a BASIC
>>program (via CLOAD), you'd get nothing.
>>
>>Should you really want to see this program, type in the following program
>>(which is basically a CLOAD without ?IO ERROR):
>>
>>1 FOR X = 42136 TO 42301
>>2 POKE X-21136, PEEK(X)
>>3 NEXT X
>>4 POKE 157,82
>>5 POKE 158,8
>>6 POKE 21075,33
>>7 EXEC
>>
>>This works on Color BASIC 1.1, and Extended Color BASIC 1.0.  Not that
>>anyone uses them anymore, but it is sort of a fun program.  Note that
>>lines 4 and 5 define the exec vector -- that is, you could have deleted
>>lines 4 and 5 and changed line 7 to EXEC 82*256 + 8.
>>
>>This little program is most certainly not the "be-all, end-all" of loading
>>your unloadable programs off of tape.  You can (and probably will) get a
>>lot of garbage in your BASIC programs, but at least you'll get
>>something...
>>
>>             - Aaron
>>
>>
>>
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