commodore 64 / syntax LOAD "*",8,1?

Question

I made a question days ago asking for the command to load a program from a floppy in a commodore 64 and I got the syntax you see above...my question is, if i don't know exactly what's inside the floppy, what should I write instead of "*"?

"*" stands for the name of the program you want to load...

Answer 1

hi

the load "*",8,1 command is the commodore disk operating system (dos) command for loading the first file on the drive regardless of it's name hence the *, and yes the commodore does accept wildcards in it, here is a short list of dos commands for you:

load "$",8 = directory, you have to write "list" and press enter after issuing this command as the commodore 64 dos loads the directory as a basic program so u got to list it after loading.

then u should write this to load a program from a disk after loading and listing the directory:

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load"whateverprogramnameuwanttoload",8,1 = if its a machine language program

load"whateverprogramnameuwanttoload",8 = if its a basic program

and then type either "run" (for basic programs) or "sysxxxx" (for machine laguage programs) where xxxx is the start address of the program

hope this works, any doubt feel free to ask me

by the way what u use a real c64 or a emulated one??? (i use both)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I assume the person meant the * to ba a wild card and that using that command with the "*" meant load the next file no matter what it is.

Not sure if the C64 understood wild cards, you could try "" with nothing in it. Been awhile since I played with one of them.