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The MERGE command would work if you were loading a normal BASIC program, but quickly you'd learn this didn't work with commercial games. (Which largely loaded
by stevekemp 7y ago
The MERGE command would work if you were loading a normal BASIC program, but quickly you'd learn this didn't work with commercial games.
(Which largely loaded the system variables, and state, since the memory-map was fixed. If you tried to MERGE you'd load those values and your system would crash, reset, or otherwise hang.)