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capsikin
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Posted: 01:59am 24 Jul 2020

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jincamty said Sorry, I am missing some basic fundamentals of this Maximite stuff.

How do I copy a .mod file from the SD card to A: within the full screen editor?

Cheers Cam.

I don't know that I can help further but I did want to check - are you using an old Colour Maximite (version 1), or one of the new Colour Maximite 2's?

The game was for the original version Colour Maximite, which I'm not so familiar with.

jincamty

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Posted: 02:19am 24 Jul 2020

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I'm using a surplus CGCOLORMAX2.

The game starts okay but them comes up with a statement,

[753] PlayMOD "Inv_Exp.mod" ,2000
Error: Cannot find file.

The instructions at the beginning of the code says,

'copy audio effects modules to a:
'modules names are
'Laser1.mod
'Inv_Exp.mod

How do I copy to a: ?

Cheers Cam.

BrianP
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Posted: 04:31am 24 Jul 2020

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For the original Maximites:

Drive b: is the default (the SD card which may or may not be present).

Drive a: is the internal flash drive accessed at boot time for "autorun.bas" (if present) to autoload & run a program

to access drive a: - enter "drive a:" (without the quotes). a: is now the accessible drive for saving to.

Cheers

Brian
Edited 2020-07-24 14:36 by BrianP

jincamty

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Posted: 11:35pm 24 Jul 2020

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Thanks Brian,

You over estimate my level of understanding. :-)

How do I get a file from the SD card to the internal flash drive A:?

I can see the files on the screen from the SD card after typing 'FILES'
but I need to transfer two of them to drive A. (I think?)

Cheers Cam.

capsikin
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Posted: 11:56pm 24 Jul 2020

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I don't know about the full screen editor but if you can run BASIC commands I'm guessing that if you run these two from Turbo46's post:

Copy "Laser1.MOD" To "A:Laser1.MOD"
Copy "Inv_Exp.MOD" To "A:Inv_Exp.MOD"

that could copy them (not sure if you also need to somehow specify that the originals are on the SD card and not drive A)

jincamty

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Posted: 12:11am 25 Jul 2020

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capsikin said I don't know about the full screen editor but if you can run BASIC commands I'm guessing that if you run these two from Turbo46's post:

Copy "Laser1.MOD" �To "A:Laser1.MOD"
Copy "Inv_Exp.MOD" �To "A:Inv_Exp.MOD"

that could copy them (not sure if you also need to somehow specify that the originals are on the SD card and not drive A)

Oustanding, thank you.

I really need a basic lesson in basic.

Cheers Cam.

JohnS
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Posted: 06:40am 25 Jul 2020

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Although it's in the manual (from https://geoffg.net/MonoMaximite.html or the like) I suppose it's not entirely obvious what is / isn't allowed in src$ and dest$

They can be variables (as their names show) or explicit strings (or a mix), e.g.
COPY "myfile" TO "B:"

should work. (I don't have a maximite plugged in to check.)

John

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