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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Random files problem w/sprites enabled on C64
Message-ID: <22660@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 19 Jan 88 14:34:57 GMT
References: <1293@edison.GE.COM>
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Reply-To: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Organization: The Logic Foundation
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Keywords: doing b-p:8,x with sprites enabled hangs up computer

In article <1293@edison.GE.COM> mfs@edison.GE.COM (Martin Sant) writes:
>I found
>that the computer would 'hang-up' if I tried to use the 'b-p:'
>command while I had sprites enabled...

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this..."
"Then don't do that."

Sorry, Folks.  Sprites and the serial bus don't mix.  If ANY sprites
are on and you do ANY serial bus access the computer WILL hang every
so often.

This is due to a minor, easy to fix bug.  Easy, that is, except 
for upgrading all X million Commodore-64's.

Moral: Blank the sprites.

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