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Meaning of parameters in classic 'LOAD "*",8,1' Commodore command

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In the good old days of Commodore (64 and 128), the command to type to load the first program off a disk was: Where I take it that was probably a wild card that would just effectively give all the contents of the disk to which would then successfully load whatever happened to be the first loadable …

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LOAD "*",8,1

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LOAD "*",8,1 The general syntax is: The filename means the first file on the the disk, as you mentioned in your question. The first number parameter is a device number. is the device number for the first disk drive. From the Wikipedia article on Com…

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