POKE 53280, n: POKE 53281, n
Change the border and background colors to n. n was in range of 0-15, which equated to (let's see how many I remember)...
Black, white, red, cyan, purple, green, blue, yellow, orange, brown, pink, dark grey, med. grey, light green, light blue, light grey. If you attempted to PEEK either of these two values, the result had to be ANDed with 15, as the upper half of the byte was pretty random (but I can't remember why).
POKE 198,0: WAIT 198,1
Clear the keyboard buffer and then wait for a keypress.
SHIFT + [RUN/STOP]
Insert into the keyboard buffer: LOAD[RETURN]RUN[RETURN]
A really quick and lazy way to load the next BASIC program on the datasette and run it (doesn't work so well if the next program is machine language).
[RUN/STOP]+[RESTORE]
Soft reset, but only if you *smack* RESTORE, not just tap or press it. Did not wipe out memory, IIRC.
SYS 64738
Soft reset that refreshed the entire memory back to its power-on state.
Most fun I had with that machine was making music, lyric, and graphic files for the SID player. I've even found some of my creations floating around in nostalgic SID collections on the 'net. My own little claim to fame (such as it is). :D |
