SUPADRIVE

LOADING  place program  in  microdrive  1
and press RUN/ENTER

Three options will appear.

These  are A4  shade copy,  supadrive and
cat.  To activate them type a, b, or z.

Option   z  is  already   loaded  in  the
computer  when the first menu appears, so
do not press this letter without removing
the supadrive cartridge and inserting the
cartridge you want to merge with z.

IMPORTANT:      this     cartridge     is
write-protected.   Please do not write on
it, because the program might be damaged.



OPTION b.

Gives you the main program: Use SPACE to
select a command and ENTER to execute it.
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FORMAT.

Not only will you be able to increase the
capacity  of your cartridges, but we also
find  that  the  cartridge  becomes  more
reliable.

By selecting the density you can find out
which one (1-9) formats  100  K  on  your
microdrive.  The  subroutine will  end by
giving  you  the  exact  number  of  free
memory sectors.     Divide  this by  2 to
get the free memory in K-Ram.

IMPORTANT:   If you format your cartridge
to  the limit,  we advise you to test the
cartridge by keeping  a  back-up  of  the
saved programs separately.

If a program  fails to  load, then  use a 
lower density.





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CAT.

This  fast catalogue will  reveal all the
information  about your basic and machine
code programs.

The  unprintable characters are marked on
the screen as inverse hexadecimal digits.
If you use  a  printer,  the  hexadecimal
values will be underlined.

In  printer  mode,  you  can  select  the
baud-rate between 110 and 19200.

If you  are in  screen mode,   the border
will  get black each time the screen gets
full to  indicate that  you must  press a
key to obtain the next screen.

REPAIR.

After making a complete catalogue of your
cartridge,  repair  will  ask  you  which
program should be verified/repaired.

The chosen  one will then  be scanned for
bad records.
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Once  found, they  will be  made loadable
again by re-calculating their check sums.

Note,  that the record will still contain
errors. Repair  will only  circumvent the
"file  not found" message  and thus allow
you to load the program.

OPTION z   CAT / the run program.

This   enables  you  to  load  any  basic
program with a minimum of typing.  Simply
type RUN/ENTER and  a  menu  if  all  the
basic  programs will appear, allowing you
an  immediate choice  about what  to load
next.

The only restriction is that the names of
all the basic programs have to start with
a chosen character.

The  character we have already chosen for
you is ".", but  you  can  easily  change
this by breaking in the program itself.



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Start  out  by  inserting  the  supadrive
cartridge.  Type  RUN/ENTER,  remove  the
supadrive  cartridge   and  insert    the
cartridge that you  want  modified.  Type
"Z", the cartridge  will  be  scanned  in
search of new names.

Do not worry if the drive seems to be
working hard. The old (run) program has
to be replaced by the new one, which
holds a menu with the names of you basic
programs.

The maximum number of basic programs is
restricted to 21, so that the total
length would not exceed 503 bytes.

We  therefore suggest you do not modify
this program, if you still want to fit it
into 1 cartridge sector.

IMPORTANT  If you break into the program,
never    use   run   to   start  it  up
again...instead type GOTO 0.

Option a:
A4 SHADE COPY / the shade routine
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Although  this  routine  was  especially
written  for  the  RS232  interface, you
should be able to use it with most other
printer interfaces which respond  to the
normal Llist and Lprint commands.

Note however  that you must  use an Epson
compatible printer.

After loading  the screen  this is  to be
dumped,  you should  see a  window, which
can  be adjusted to copy  any part of the
screen to the printer.

Simply use keys Q, A,  O,  P  to  move  a
corner  up, down, left and right.  Typing
N will switch to the opposite corner.
When satisfied, press  "enter"  to  start
printing.

IMPORTANT  The part of the screen that is
overlapped by the window will also be put
to paper.





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