Commander X16

Cool. I look forward to your game. And welcome. ?

Greetings all. Came to the forums for help a few times, thought I might make an introduction. I'm a software engineer living in Kentucky. Came back home after ten years working for Amazon and Microsoft in Seattle. I was kind of part of the 8-bit scene as a kid, and kind of not. I had an Atari 400, ...

Thanks! that's super useful. Still curious why the basic load command doesn't work, but I won't be using it anymore anyway now I know this. 

When I launch the emulator with an sdcard, the LOAD"$",8 command doesn't work anymore.  When I try it, I get "Searching for $" then "Loading from $0801", and it just sits there indefinitely. The same command returns a directory that I can LIST just fine when I don't mount an sdcard.  Oddly, the X16...