Re: How do you play Electric Duet music files outside of the original disk?

[bloomer_au <bloomer@iprimus.com.au>]

Let's say your player file is called PLAY and your music file is called M.MUSIC. What you do is:

1. BLOAD PLAY,A$300
2. BLOAD M.MUSIC,A$6000 (You can load it elsewhere if you want, but I think this is the duet's default load position)
3. POKE 30,0 and POKE 31,96 (These pokes tell the player where to find the music data. You would change them if you loaded the music somewhere other than A$6000)
4. CALL 768

Are you using PRODOS? If so, you can put the BLOADs in your program like so:

20 ?CHR$(4)"BLOAD PLAY,A$300"

If you're using DOS 3.3, you need to account for the chr$(4) bug, but I'll only bother typing about that if it proves relevant :)

- Wade