CAUTION: any disk with an autoloader file on it should be clearly labeled, so that you know what it will do to your drive! This program may be stored on and read from any disk or tape drive, but the autoload file it makes is of use only on a disk that can go into a 1581. Since currently only a 1581 can write a disk that a 1581 will read, the program expects to write to a 1581. It creates a USR file named "copyright cbm 86". A 1581 drive turned on or reset while it contains a disk that has a USR file with that name in its root directory will automatically load and execute that file in disk drive RAM. This process goes on entirely within the disk drive, regardless of which kind of computer it is hooked to, and is not related to the C128's autoboot rou- tines. (If you have both an autoloader and an autoboot sector on the same disk, the autoloader will run when you turn the 1581 on and the autoboot sector will run when you turn an attached C128 on if the 1581 is device 8.) The one made by this program will cause a 1581 to change its device number if it is turned on or reset while a disk with that file is inside it. The new device number will be the one you selected when you ran this program to make the file. The device number at which the 1581 starts out doesn't matter: it will change to the one that the autoloader tells it to, even if there is another unit with its old number, if there is another drive with its new number, or even if the computer hasn't been turned on yet. Just put a disk with the autoloader file into the 1581 and turn the drive on or reset it. It doesn't have to be the same drive every time: it will work on any 1581 you turn on [or reset] with the disk in it. Just to clarify: this file is the autoloader itself [for one thing, I don't know in advance which unit number you want to change your drive into, and for another, few terminal emulators support downloading USR files] but rather a BASIC 2.0 program (it works on 64's and 128's and assumes only a forty-column screen) that makes the autoload file after you tell it two things: 1. which unit number you are using to create the autoloader (usually 8-11), and 2. which unit number you want the autoloader to turn a 1581 into (usually 12-30, since 8-11 can be selected with DIP switches). [August 3, 1992: The 1988 version did not work on 64's. That's been fixed.]