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From: lncjb@cc.nu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous CBM64 questions to end the year {`oo'}
Message-ID: <5412.2767a433@cc.nu.oz.au>
Date: 13 Dec 90 05:54:27 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.014321.14609@frey.nu.oz.au> <36730@cup.portal.com>
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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 ][ (?)


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