[Coco] Transferring files to the MC-10

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Sat Oct 5 17:48:16 EDT 2013


Are you saying that there is no ASCII save of Basic programs on the
MC-10, so therefore there is no support for loading such files back
in?

Art

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>
>> I'd have thought the ASCII Basic transfer would work (as I've heard it
>> does in transferring Basic programs from the CoCo to the Dragon).
>>
>> I wonder if the MC-10 might use a different line delimiter than the
>> CoCo, resulting in the lines appearing to be run together.  The CoCo
>> uses a single CR.  Maybe the MC-10 wants CR+LF?
>>
>>
> The MC-10 will not load ASCII files.  It will load a tokenized Basic
> program saved from a CoCo, but its token values are different so you end up
> with gibberish.
>
> Darren
>
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