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ATARI: Game Over Documentary

Finished watching ATARI: Game Over Documentary on Apple TV last week. While I found it interesting that even after 30 years that there is such interest in whether Atari did or didnt dump thousands of ET cartridges in a landfill. … Continue reading

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Where it begun

It was the early 1980’s and the Home Computer revolution had not long begun when I was gifted a Commodore VIC 20 along with two cartridges and an excellent easy to follow instruction manual. Commodore VIC 20 The cartridges were … Continue reading

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Launching 64 programs from a 128

How to launch a C64 program from a C128 in 128 mode: Location 65533 will return a unique value depending on the mode / machine which is running. Using the ABS function allows us to make the variable M equal … Continue reading

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Load and Run

Here is a utility program for everyone. One of the worst features of the C64 is the way the 1541 handles machine language program. It is essential that you load a ML program wit a “,8,1” suffix so that the … Continue reading

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