Commodore 128 - Formatting a Disk; Saving and Loading Your Own Programs

Formatting a Disk
Before a disk can be used to store information or any of your own programs,
it must be formatted. The way in which this is carried out depends on the
current mode of the C128. The following gives the locations
in the System
Guide where the formatting instructions are given
for each mode:
C128 Chapter 2 Section 3
C64 Chapter 3 Section 10
CP I M Chapter 4 Section 12
Saving And Loading Your Own Programs
In C128 and C64 modes you can SAVE onto disk programs that you have
created yourself. These programs can then,
at a later date, be LOADed into
the computer and
RUN. To save a program onto disk, insert a previously
formatted disk into the disk drive, close the disk drive door and type:
SAVE"programname" ,8
where programname is the name you assign to your program. This is a
maximum of 16 alphabetic and numeric characters. When this
is as you
wish, press the
RETURN key. The disk drive active light is then illuminated
and the message:
SAVING programname
is displayed. When this is complete the "READY ." message reappears with
the cursor below
it.
When you wish to use this program again, or make amendments to it , load it
into the computer's memory by inserting the disk on which you SAVEd it into
the disk drive and typing:
LOAD"programname" ,8
The program name must be exactly as you specified it when you SAVEd the
program. When this
is as you wish, press RETURN . The disk drive active
light
is illuminated and the message:
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