Happy 1050 "Forced Write"?

[Happy 1050 "Forced Write"?]

1 hour ago, evilmoo said:

Are you sure this is a function of the Happy drive and not of DOS?  Have you tried closing the file and reopening it to flush any buffers?  Are you checking for errors upon return from POINT and WRITE?

Several people suggested opening and closing the file every time, as apposed to just leaving the file open, and that actually did the trick. Thanks all!

[Happy 1050 "Forced Write"?]

Hello, I have a bit of a dilemma I was hoping I could get some advice on. I am writing a game in Atari Basic on my 800XL, with a Happy 1050 drive, version 7.1. I wrote a separate program to design the rooms, add them to a string variable, and then save them to a disk. Each room contains one full DD sector of information (256 bytes), using MyDos 4.53. I'm using the Atari NOTE and POINT commands to randomly access files on the disk, so that I can edit and save information one room at a time. The problem I'm having is that Happy will not save the information immediately, rather it will wait until it accumulates several sectors (I'm not sure how many) before it will write to the disk. I've read the Happy Instruction Manual, and apparently this is normal. I've tried leaving Fast Write turned off, and setting the Off Delay to it's fastest and slowest settings (A-Z), and even setting the drive to UnHappy mode, but still the same thing occurs. This just won't do for what I'm trying to do, and I was wondering if someone here knows of a way to "Force" Happy to write to a disk, please keeping in mind my programming skills are limited to just Basic. Thanks!

[SpartaDos 3.2d manual or help?]

On 6/20/2014 at 7:46 AM, Fox-1 / mnx said:

APPENDIX E - ATARI DOS 2 VS SPARTADOS



Atari DOS 2 Menu and SpartaDOS Equivalents     SpartaDOS Semi Equivalent

ATARI DOS 2.0S                                 

A.  DISK DIRECTORY                             DIR                     

B.  RUN CARTRIDGE                              CAR                     

C.  COPY FILE                                  COPY                    

D.  DELETE FILE                                ERASE                   

E.  RENAME FILE                                RENAME                  

F.  LOCK FILE                                  PROTECT(SEE UNERASE)    

G.  UNLOCK FILE                                UNPROTECT               

H.  WRITE DOS FILES                            (SEE FORMATIINIT/XINIT)

I.  FORMAT DISK                                FORMAT/XINITIINIT/AINIT

J.  DUPLICATE DISK                             DUPDSK                  

K.  BINARY SAVE                                SAVE/APPEND             

L.  BINARY LOAD                                LOAD/OFF _LOAD/fname    

M.  RUN AT ADDRESS                             RUN                     

N.  CREATE MEM.SAV                             (NOT NEEDED WITH        

                                               RESIDENT DOS)           

O.  DUPLICATE FILE                             SPCOPY/XCOPY                                   

                                                       



SpartaDOS Commands With no Atari DOS 2 Equivalent



?DIR  AT_RS232  BASIC  Batch Files  BOOT

BUFS  CHKDSK  CHTD  CHVOL  CREDIR

CWD  DELDIR  DIS_BAT  DUMP  FORMAT

INIT  KEY  LOCK  MDUMP  MEM

MEMLO  OFF _LOAD PAUSE  PORT  PRINT

PUTRUN  RD130  RDAXLON  RDBASIC  RPM

SET  SPCOPY  TD  TIME  TREE

TSET  TYPE  UNERASE  UNLOCK  VERIFY

XCOPY  XDIV  XINIT  XKEY  XTD

Very Useful indeed!

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Thank you! I'm looking into it now.

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Thank you for the info.

[1050 Drive switches]

I'll give that a shot first, thanks...and yep, I already saw a diagnostic disk on ebay for $19.99.

 

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Thank you

 

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