bobbimanners / EightBall

The Eight Bit Algorithmic Language for Apple II, Commodore 64 and VIC20
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Commodore: can not overwrite bytecode file #18

Open bobbimanners opened 6 years ago

bobbimanners commented 6 years ago

On CBM you can't just blindly overwrite a file. Should issue code to delete ("scratch") it first. The Commodore DOS 'overwrite' prefix (which I recall is '@') is buggy on original Commodore drives and corrupts disks, so we shouldn't rely on that.