lncjb@cc.nu.oz.au (12/13/90)
In article <36730@cup.portal.com>, Michelle@cup.portal.com (Tracy M Wirs) writes: > I know the answer to Q2..... COMPUTE!'s GAZETTE printed it with their MLX > checker programs...... it's SYS 64738 for the C64. > > Michelle@cup.portal.com [[[ I must thank Marc Walters (Snub/TBH/Black Eagle software, for this newsgroup's Austrailian viewers), for it was his collection of magazines I searched through yesterday that I found the following answer ]]] Re Q2: There are 'magic' numbers on the Commodore machines (was there a trace of smugness in your article Tracy?) The numbers don't reset the machine, but apparently a BRK is exicuted whenever a number ranging from 350720 - 353270 is entered. Is the problem due to the interpreter routine at $A96B? A useful undocumented feature actually,,, imagine you've been playing around with graphics with the VICII paged up in $C000-$FFFF. A quick and easy way to restore the video regs and exit the program would be to 'GOTO 350800'. The magazine article (from [Austrailian] Personal Computing Games/PCG) also sez this 'feature' also exists on the VIC, PET and the Apple ][ (?) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chris Baird, Occupation: Impoverished BSc Undergrad Temp. address: LNCJB@cc.nu.oz.au (AARNet/Internet) }`oo'{ --- Bye, extremely ugly Dude! `'