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H O M E T O W E R N E W S
by Dave Moorman
Several Home Tower users have
asked for some advice on how to
include more issues of LOADSTAR on the
Tower.
For various reasons, 64HDriver --
the browser program for the Home Tower
-- was limited to accessing issues 1
through 199. Changing the innards of
the program is not for the faint
hearted, which I am right now! But
there is another way to quickly access
issues of LOADSTAR. (I just stopped
writing this to check it out. The
process is incredibly [easy]!)
1. Boot up the Home Tower and
64HDriver (LOAD"64:*",15 <RETURN>
and <RUN>).
2. Navigate to the subdirectory where
you want to keep your LOADSTARS.
3. Put your LOADSTAR disk in the Home
Tower's 3.5 inch drive. Press <BACK
ARROW> and choose "1581". Choose
"1581 > D81". Type in a name (LS###
would do) and press <RETURN>.
1581Copy will put the issue on your
hard disk.
4. Put the Right Menu cursor on the
LOADSTAR D81 file and press
<RETURN>.
You should now see the LOADSTAR
Directory. The next part is the magic!
5. Press <BACK ARROW>, move the Left
Menu cursor down to "Send C=DOS"
and press <RETURN>.
6. We will assume the issue is LS 200.
Type:
ap200
and press <RETURN>.
7. Now, when you want to get to LS 200
quickly, choose "Send C=DOS", type:
cp200
and press <RETURN>.
To start the issue, choose "START"
and press <Shift-RETURN><Y>.
The "partition" function of 64HDD
can use numbers up to 899. 64HDriver
has Partitions from 2 to 63. And
the system uses 1, 64, 256, and 900+.
You can use all the rest!
For a complete LOADSTAR Library,
copy the latest version (on LS 210)
and the "lsl.*" files to a handy place
on your hard drive. Perhaps you will
want to give it a partition number of
199. Your choice.
Once you are connected to the Home
Tower, you can call up a "partitioned"
issue in immediate mode. Type:
OPEN1,[dv],15,"cp[n]":close1
where [dv] is the Tower device,
and [n] is the partition number.
Then
LOAD"*",dv,1
Nick Copland has built a powerful
drive emulator and we can make the
"mighty" PC into our C= slave!
DMM