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Re:1987: Kid submits 7 Robotron bugfixes using only the mach... by 300bps on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:14PM (#6021249)
>I keep using C000 by habit

It's been over 25 years since I last programmed in Assembly on my Commodore 64 but I will never forget typing:

SYS 49152

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Re:1987: Kid submits 7 Robotron bugfixes using only the mach... by cgh on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @02:22PM (#6021800)
Yes, the starting address of the 4KB of "protected" memory that we'd poke our assembler opcodes into. All us C64 programmers (loosely used term in my case, I was ten years old or so) have that address burned into our brains forever.
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Re:1987: Kid submits 7 Robotron bugfixes using only the mach... by lurkinggrue on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:50PM (#6022692)
SYS 64738
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