POKE 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

POKE 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 ;-)