[Coco] Dragon ASCII save

[Ward Griffiths]

On 03/16/2005 05:47 pm, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> Ward Griffiths wrote:
> > SAVE "filename",A just like with a Color Computer, an MC-10 or most other
> > 8-bit Microsoft BASICs.
>
> Mmmm, I think the MC-10 does not do ASCII CSAVEs or CLOADs... sadly, if it
> did then porting software to/from it would have made things a LOT easier
> back in those years. The special variation on CLOAD or CSAVE with the MC-10
> allows the user to load or store data files as a numerical array. The only
> program (widely distributed as far as a book goes) I ever saw making use of
> CLOAD* and CSAVE* was Bill Barden's Word Processor for the MC-10 as found
> in his book "TRS-80 Color Computer & MC-10 Programs". This mini word
> processor stored 5 full pages of text ->32x15 matrix for a total of 2,400
> bytes of storage if I recall specs correctly.

Guess my memory is more corrupted by entropy and alcohol than I thought.  
Coulda swore the MC-10 had an ASCII option.  But I didn't play with them all 
that much at my RSCC, since aside from my fat fingers not doing well on that 
keyboard, I was having too much fun with Xenix, OS-9 and LS-DOS.
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