[Coco] Transferring files to the MC-10

[Arthur Flexser]

Does the CoCo actually stop the tape player when loading an ASCII
file?  I'd have thought the tokenizing process would be fast enough to
more than keep up with the cassette motion.  Especially if there are
silent gaps between blocks to allow the CoCo to catch up.

Art

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> The MC-10 does NOT have an ASCII save option nor the ability to re-tokenize
> an ASCII file at load time.  The CoCo saves ASCII files to cassette using
> "gap" mode so that during a load, it can stop the cassette player while it
> tokenizes the incoming ASCII data.  The MC-10 has no motor control relay
> and cannot stop the cassette player.  The ASCII and Gap mode flags in the
> file header are ignored by the MC-10.
>
> Darren
>
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