Save to disk in BASIC

[Trooper]

Back in the day, I never had a disk drive so I need someone to tell me what command to use when saving to disks from BASIC. Do I need to load a DOS before entering my programs? a Step by step guide would be great

 

Thanks in advance!

 

/T

[potatohead]

I'm pretty sure you can just save "filename" load "filename", etc...

 

maybe save "d0:filename"

 

Not where the machine is right now. Somebody here is gonna have this down cold.

 

Funny, I'm having trouble remembering the DOS part. I always started with a bootable disk for programming...

Edited April 8, 2007 by potatohead

[charliecron]

yes, you need a dos.

 

SAVE"D1:FILENAME.BAS"

 

The second double quote is optional I think..

 

http://www.atariarchives.org/basic/

[Trooper]

Thanks a lot!

 

Now I have another question. I downloaded MyDOS 4.53 and when I autoboot the image I get to the DOS menu. Now my question is, how do I drop into BASIC so that I can type in my program?

 

/T

[Urchlay]

Now I have another question. I downloaded MyDOS 4.53 and when I autoboot the image I get to the DOS menu. Now my question is, how do I drop into BASIC so that I can type in my program?

 

If BASIC is present/enabled, you should get a READY prompt instead of a DOS menu.

 

If you're using a 400, 800 or 1200XL, you need a BASIC cartridge.

 

If you're using a 600XL, 800XL, or any XE, BASIC is built in, and you just boot the Atari without holding down OPTION.

 

If you're using an emulator, you have to enable BASIC... how you do that depends on which emu you're using, but they all have some way to do it.

[Trooper]

Thanks a lot! Everything works fine now apart from the fact that my "a" key doesn't seem to work in the emu for some strange reason. Works fine in Windows, weird....

 

/T

[Urchlay]

Thanks a lot! Everything works fine now apart from the fact that my "a" key doesn't seem to work in the emu for some strange reason. Works fine in Windows, weird....

 

If you're using a non-US keyboard layout, you might have to mess with the key mapping in the emulator (or switch to a US layout in Windows). I don't know much about this: I don't run Windows, and I only have a US keyboard anyway.