Thanks. I was not aware of the TS-DOS resident feature. That is enough to do what I want it to do. I prefer to keep my BASIC programs in ASCII format while on the PC, so as long as I can tokenize on load, that great.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 3:42 PM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 3:03 PM Tom Wilson <wilso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is great! With TSLOAD, I can finally talk to LaddieAlpha! Thank you, >> guys! >> >> Now for the next step... it looks like BASIC programs encoded as text get >> renamed somewhere in the process as "db" files. So "HELL1.BA" becomes >> "HELLO1.DB" when I view the file through TS-DOS. >> >> > The Model T is perfectly capable of tokenizing BASIC from text on its own. > > HELL1.BA, if it is not tokenized BASIC is incorrectly named. Generally > you should name files appropriately yourself and not attempt to inload > files with mismatched extensions with TS-DOS. > > If TS-DOS sees a file named .BA it assumes it is tokenized BASIC. If it is > actually plain text and you inload it, TS-DOS will corrupt your memory file > system by forcing it into the .BA file area in RAM. > > You've hit a failsafe in LaddieAlpha designed to protect you from crashing > your Model T and it did its job. > > >> What do I need to do to load this file into BASIC on the T-100? Do I need >> to use VirtualT to convert it to a binary BASIC file first? >> >> > First, rename it on the PC side to have the correct extension. > > Then inload it as a DO. > > Then from BASIC you can LOAD"HELL1.DO" > > Or if you have DOS-ON you can load it directly with LOAD"0:HELL1.DB" > > >> On that note... should we add an enhancement to VirtualT to save ASCII >> encoded BASIC files with something like .ba.do, instead of just .ba, when >> saving off BASIC files as ASCII? >> >> > It already supports all that. > > -- John. > -- Tom Wilson wilso...@gmail.com (619)940-6311 K6ABZ
