Turnkey and PACKCOPY
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Many people have had trouble running Turnkey programs after copying SmartBasic to disk with PACKCOPY. Don't know what a 'Turnkey' is?? A 'Turnkey' is a program that is run by SmartBasic immediately after Basic is loaded. SmartBasic looks for a program named "HELLO" on the Data Pack or Disk before turning control over to you. If one is found.- it is auto-run by Basic. If no program is named "HELLO", control is turned over to the user immediately. The problem some people have is that even though SmartBasic is on Disk, Basic still looks to the Data Pack drive for the 'HELLO' program. Here is a two line change to PACKCOPY you should use when copying SmartBasic to Disk. Note : This change is only for use with PACKCOPY. Some of the newer copies allow you to set the default drive (as its called) without modification.

First boot SmartBasic and type RUN PACKCOPY. When you get to the menu screen type 5 (quit) and it Will say COPY ABORTED. Then type these two lines.

1350 IF I <> 16 THEN 1500
1360 POKE 32201, 4

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Now type RUN 410 and you will be taken back to the menu previously exited. Now go ahead and copy SmartBasic.

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