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It's interesting how seeing the screenshots (for me specifically, the Atari one and to a lesser extent the c64 one) can instantly trigger a flood of memories an
by ilikepi 16y ago
It's interesting how seeing the screenshots (for me specifically, the Atari one and to a lesser extent the c64 one) can instantly trigger a flood of memories and nostalgia. Wish I hung onto my XE, if for no other reason than to mount it on my wall...
- Bud 16y agoEntirely agree; fonts have great power that way. I was transported back to age 11 in my basement with an Atari 400, and to a friend's room who had a C64. All kinds of details you've forgotten can come rushing back into active memory if the right switches get flipped. Ah, the days of laboriously typing in BASIC programs...
- Luyt 16y agoPOKE 53280,0 POKE 53281,0 That would make the background of the screen black on the C64. I really hated the default blue background (coming from the PET and S100 systems), but otherwise I very much liked the C64. I would always issue these POKEs after powering it on. Later I burned my own patched KERNAL ROM which would make the screen background black by default. Later, after my C64 died, I transfered this EPROM into my dad's SX-64, which is still sitting in his attic and sometimes powered up to see if it still works. It does ;-)