neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-214 days agoWhat obsolete knowledge do you know by heart, and would like to share?message-squaremessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1109
arrow-up1109message-squareWhat obsolete knowledge do you know by heart, and would like to share?neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-214 days agomessage-square104fedilink
minus-squareZombiepirate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·edit-214 days agoLoading a program from disk on the Commodore 64 LOAD"*",8,1 I haven’t loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I’ll never forget the command. I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·14 days agoI choose to believe that the * means everything… but what does the 8,1 signify?
minus-squareZombiepirate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 days agoThere’s another user who replied to me who answered much better than I could.
minus-squarerodneylives@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 days agoAlong these lines, I have several important memory locations memorized. POKE 53280 and 1 to change the border and background colors. 828 is the cassette buffer, and 49152 the free memory above BASIC ROM. SYS 64738 resets the machine. I also can recite the powers of 2 up to 65536.
Loading a program from disk on the Commodore 64
I haven’t loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I’ll never forget the command.
I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.
I choose to believe that the * means everything… but what does the 8,1 signify?
There’s another user who replied to me who answered much better than I could.
Along these lines, I have several important memory locations memorized. POKE 53280 and 1 to change the border and background colors. 828 is the cassette buffer, and 49152 the free memory above BASIC ROM. SYS 64738 resets the machine.
I also can recite the powers of 2 up to 65536.