[Coco] CLOAD without ?IO ERROR
KnudsenMJ at aol.com
KnudsenMJ at aol.com
Wed Mar 2 13:47:29 EST 2005
In my earliest Coco days I had a short TapeDir program, probably typed in
from The Rainbow, that would run thru a cassette and print onscreen the name of
each file it encountered. Very handy for finding the most recent Dungeons
of Daggorath save, whose name you had forgotten.
And another program for reading in error-buggy files.
The irony was that all these programs did was call ROM BASIC routines.
Tandy had all the parts for a really decent tape file system in the ROM, but gave
us a very limited "official" interface to them, that couldn't show
filenames, tolerate errors, etc.
--Mike K.
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