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On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:04:07 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence Woodman wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:48:21 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> Lawrence Woodman  writes:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I've been trying to save some memory on the VIC-20 to a file on disk but
>>> seem to be having some problems when it comes to close the file.  At the
>>> moment the file saves the data properly from assembly but I have to use
>>> 'CLOSE 8' from basic to prevent it having an asterisk next to the name in
>>> the directory entry.
>>
>> I assembled with xa and ran in Vice but I don't get an asterisk in the
>> directory entry. Other than the obvious file name issue I see nothing
>> wrong but I'm hardly an expert.
>
> Thanks for trying.  I have got it running now, the problem was that I was
> automating this and wasn't leaving it long enough before checking the
> directory.  It's all working now :-)

And the delay when physically writing a file does not occur in
emulators. That's why it worked in VICE right away.

Hmm, VICE has "true drive emulation". I wonder what happens if activated...
--
Andreas

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