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

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, bloomer_au wrote:
> 
>> 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 :)
> 
> This is why I often use ?:? CHR$(4), since it works on both OSes.

But it prints a blank line if an end-of-line has already been printed. 

It's not hard to keep track of whether an EOL is pending. Most programs
don't want to do disk I/O in the middle of printing a like!

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon