I think that I had a good idea for MSX Taper... well, or at least for saving me a lot of time when I try to load a game

I can't never remember if a game on tape must be loaded with the command LOAD, CLOAD or BLOAD
So I was thinking about the possibility of adding a "universal loader"... something really simple infact... It just takes a look at the first MSX file stored in a tape...

if it's a binary file, before that file it inserts this simple basic program:

10 POKE -1, 170
20 BLOAD "CAS:",R

if it's a basic program instead, it writes:

10 CLOAD
20 RUN

So that's convenient (well, at least that is true for me), because I know that when I insert that small program I don't have to worry about the right command, and I can always type RUN "CAS:" to load the game, no matter what.


But I have a problem... after the CLOAD command the MSX should be supposed to execute the RUN command, but it doesn't work... off course, because a new BASIC program is loaded into the memory. Do you know if there is any way to CLOAD something and execute it ?

Um, don't use POKE -1,70! Use the universal poke, see the Ultimate MSX FAQ.
Also, your CLOAD and RUN program won't work, indeed. After CLOAD, the loader program is overwritten Probably, the only thing you can do is poke the load and run instruction into the keyboard buffer.

Check out what happens if you insert several types of CAS images into openMSX when the setting "autoruncassettes" is enabled.

Not a complete solution, but a suggestion: I've seen a small BASIC program that pokes the name of a DOS program into the keyboard input buffer and then just does a CALL SYSTEM to switch to DOS. DOS reads the input buffer as if the user just typed the command and runs the program.

Maybe you could have the loader poke "RUN" into the keyboard buffer, then load the program with CLOAD. After CLOAD has finished BASIC will read the input buffer and run the program (hopefully )

(Hi manuel - gmta, eh?)

Thank you