BSAVE
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BSAVE and BLOAD are commands in many varieties of the
Some platforms provided a BRUN command that, after loading the file into memory, would immediately attempt to execute it as machine code.
There is no file compression, and therefore these files load very quickly and without much programming when displayed in native mode.
BSAVE files were in general use as a file format when the
Origin
Some versions of BASIC for home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s include the command BSAVE
(for "Binary Save") and the complementary BLOAD
("Binary Load"). Using the BSAVE command, a block of memory at a given address with a specified length can be written to disk as a file.[1] This file can then be reloaded into memory via BLOAD.[2]
Microsoft produced the BASIC interpreters that were bundled with the
A BSAVE command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2.[3]
ColorBASIC
On the
Video images
The BSAVED format is a device-dependent raster image format; the file header sometimes stores information about the display hardware address, and the size of the graphics data. The graphics data follows the header directly and is stored as raw data in the format of the native adapter's addressable memory. No additional information, such as screen resolution, color depth and palette information, bit planes and so on, is stored.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 Advisor: BSAVE". Microsoft. 1990. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ^ "Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 Advisor: BLOAD". Microsoft. 1990. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ^ MSX-DOS2 Tools User's Manual by ASCII Corporation