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LOAD * ,8,1

... The only C64 command I remember now. Which if I am remembering correctly, meant load the first program (usually a game in my case) off the terribly unreliable, usually at least partially corrupted 5 1/4" disk.



I remember disks where load * ,8,1 would load a list of addresses to load other programs from; I think this was done by making the default program do nothing but print the addresses of other things on the disk.


How about sys 64738 (cold start/reboot) - useful in many ways!


forgot the quotes:

LOAD "*",8,1


And that just reminded me that the doubt quote was "SHIFT+2"! (unlike English US keyboards)




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