pwong@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Patrick Wong) (09/21/89)
Hi, Commodoreans, I had a strange experience yesterday with my C64 and 1541 combo : I loaded a BASIC program into C64 (without no accessories attached except the 1541) from the disk drive. When I ran the program, it crashed at a certain line. So, I LISTed the line. I was surprised that the program line contained the correct program statement, plus a few other BASIC program lines (not belonging to this program, perhaps from some other BASIC program on the same diskette) occupying several screen lines !!! So, I re-typed in the correct program line again and did a LIST. Wow, the same set of unidentified program lines were attached to the program line below the one just re-typed in !!! Then, throughtout the nite I did several hard reset of the C64 (powering it down and up) and loaded the same program each time. Each time I found those extra lines and even other unidentified extra lines attached to the ends of the original program lines at different locations of the program. And, sometimes the last few program lines of the original program were missing ! In the end, after many resets I successfully loaded the same program without anymore garbage. So, what happened ? If the disk drive is not clean, head is out of alignment, diskette is corrupted, then re-typing in the correct program lines into the program after it is loaded into the C64 memory should have fixed the problem. Since re-typing didn't fix the problem does it mean that there is something wrong with my C64 and not the 1541 or the diskette ? Please help !!! Patrick Wong pcw@squid.tn.cornell.edu pwong@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
news@tymix.UUCP (The News System) (09/22/89)
That my best guess. Good luck with it.
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