Supadrive

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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