pollyisagoodbird Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 So I found a small program to write in Basic to help minimize that loud grating noise you sometimes get with C64 disks (Ghostbusters is a good example; in my case, it happens twice when it's starting to load, and then a third time right before it finishes loading and brings up the title screen). I found a fix in an old magazine that helps with this issue, and I have tried it out on some disks in the past. But recently I dusted off my C64 for the first time in months, and for the life of me I cannot get this program to work. I'm not sure what exactly I'm overlooking or what I'm screwing up; it's driving me crazy, especially because this has worked for me before in the past. Line 20 looks fine to me...any suggestions on what might be going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 your drive is set as 8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 do a list to make sure line 20 is one line, note broken at the end of the line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyisagoodbird Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 I'm not exactly sure how the program works, to be honest. The magazine isn't of much help either; this was a small section of an article about copy protection. I just find it weird that I know I used this exact program earlier this year but had no issues with it then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Do us your drive set to 8? Did you do a list to view line 20? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyisagoodbird Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 LIST 20 brings up 20 in its entirety, so it doesn't appear to be broken. I'm not sure what you mean by setting the drive to 8 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjonte Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Remove all spaces in the program. PRINT# is a command. The # is not an argument. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyisagoodbird Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 How do I find out what number the drive actually is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 if you do a load “$”,8 and it loads the directory it’s 8. chances are it’s 8. I think @bjonte has it figured out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyisagoodbird Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, bjonte said: Remove all spaces in the program. PRINT# is a command. The # is not an argument. It worked, thank you! Ghostbusters loads up noise-free now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 3 hours ago, pollyisagoodbird said: It worked, thank you! Ghostbusters loads up noise-free now. I am honestly surprised that the setting survives games' custom loaders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Yes, the commands are PRINT, PRINT#, INPUT, INPUT#, GET, GET#. The hash mark never is part of the argument, always part of the keyword. However I can see why typesetters of a magazine wouldn't know better and mistakenly add a space at the wrong place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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