VA-76 Owner’s ManualDisk functions

Copy functions

You can copy from Zip to floppy (and vice versa), or from one floppy disk to another floppy disk, which requires changing disks. Let’s have a look at a few hands-on examples:

Copying an entire floppy disk to another floppy

WARNING— Copying files from a disk means that the VA-76’s Style RAM and Song RAM memories are erased. If you haven’t yet saved your last song to disk, you should do so before proceeding. See page 67 for details. For safety reasons, it would be a good idea to also save your User VariPhrases to disk before pro- ceeding (see page 76).

1.On the Disk Utility menu, press the [Copy] field. The display now responds with a warning regarding copyright legislation.

2.Press the [Proceed] field.

3.On the page that appears now, press the [Disk] field in the left column.

Note: It will be impossible to copy the desired floppy disk if you do not write-protect it. In that case, the message “Source Disk unprotected” appears and the display returns to the following page.

6.Press the [EXECUTE] field to start the copy opera- tion.

Note: Press the [ABORT] field if you do not want to copy the floppy disk after all.

The display now displays an animated clock to signal that some (or all) data are being copied to the VA-76’s RAM memory.

Once the first chunk of data has been loaded, follow- ing message appears:

4. Press the [From FDDTo FDD] field.

The display now responds with Insert Source Protected

Disk.

5.Slide the protect tab of the disk you wish to copy in the Protect position and insert the floppy into the floppy disk drive.

7.Remove the original floppy (the SOURCE disk) from the drive and insert the one (DESTINATION) you wish to copy the data to.

Note: Be careful to set the PROTECT tab of the Destination disk to the WRITE (or OFF) position.

Note: You need to use the same disk type as the one of the Source disk. If that was a 2DD disk, insert a 2DD disk. If the Source disk is a 2HD disk, use a 2HD disk.

8.Press [EXECUTE] again.

This time, the data in the VA-76’s RAM memory are copied (saved) to the destination disk. If all data were copied in one go, the “Function complete” message appears and you’re done. If only part of the data was loaded from the source disk, the “Insert SOURCE Pro-

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