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Warning to anyone with a physical C64, there are a couple memory addresses that if you poke them it will fry your monitor or your drive. Maybe this was a rumor
by tacotacotaco 4y ago
Warning to anyone with a physical C64, there are a couple memory addresses that if you poke them it will fry your monitor or your drive. Maybe this was a rumor as I can no longer find the source of this info but it would be a shame if someone damaged their system.
Fortunately this never happened to me as a kid. I was thrilled when found one of the addresses for controlling a sprite.
- abbeyj 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
- kwijibob 4y agoIt's not on that wikipedia page but in older Linux desktops using XFree86 windows system (before X.Org) there were always warnings that certain monitor settings could break your monitor hardware permanently. I was always fearful of breaking an expensive fat monitor.
- voxadam 4y agoIt was absolutely possible to fry old fixed-frequency monitors by specifying an improper HorizSync in your XF86Config.[0] Fortunately, for most of us fixed-frequency CRTs had been largely replaced by more modern multisync monitors[1] before we were out of diapers. [0] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6614/can-the-wrong-sync-frequency-really-destroy-a-crt-monitor https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6614/can-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisync_monitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisync_monitor
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoYou might be thinking of the PET killer poke?
- eru 4y ago> I was thrilled when found one of the addresses for controlling a sprite. Wasn't that even in the printed handbook?