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OK, I tried V5.1 with a short tape that had a couple of files. It's pretty cool to rip the files off of the tape onto the SD! However, I was only able to load the files as long as the app and ldr.p were in the same directory. In a nutshell, this is what was said:

CONFIG "D=SCRAPED"
LOAD "UTILS/TPSCRP"

This is what I had to do to get it to work:

CONFIG "D=SCRAPED"
LOAD "SCRAPED/TPSCRP"

In digging a little deeper, I verified that you can do a similiar function with CAT and CONFIG:

CAT "" would show all the root directories such as GAMES1, GAMES2, UTILS1, UTILS2, etc.
CONFIG "D=GAMES1" would set CWD to GAMES1 and then,
CAT "" would show all of the files within the GAMES1 directory. And from there,
CAT "../UTILS1" would show all of the files within the UTILS1 directory.

Page 8 of the ZXpand manual indicates that the LOAD command should do the same thing, which means:

CONFIG "D=SCRAPED"
LOAD "../UTILS1/TPSCRP"

should work, and I believe this is what you really had in mind, correct? However, it doesn't. Did I uncover a bug in version 3 of EPROM firmware or did I just simply miss something?

Regards,

ksng36

Hmm, that is unexpected. I'll have a little dig - thanks for the report!

C

Thanks so much for tape scrape! This will allow me to move/copy autorun program on tape to card. (Not much faith in my cassettes).

However removes from the ether an opportunity to tackle the problem. Now to see about editing "chess" to eliminate a bug.

In the ancient times this was a way to disable the AUTORUN:

1 REM 1234
2 POKE 16514,55
3 POKE 16515,195
4 POKE 16516,67
5 POKE 16517,3
6 FAST
7 RAND USR 16514

This will simply set the carry flag and jump at an unexpected ROM position to produce an error just after the LOAD.

I didn't know this hack.
I always use instead.
Works fine

+1!

Just used this to back up copies of the TS1500 literacy programs! Awesome.

When I get my TS back from Ian I'll give this a try myself. By the way, do you ever sleep?