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Commodore 64 - any way to safely plug in a cartridge when the power is on?
is there any programmatic setup you could do on a 64 that would make it safe to insert a cartridge with the power on ?
This calls for a clear No, But :)
Why is it Risky?
In general it's unhealthy ...
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Commodore 64 - any way to safely plug in a cartridge when the power is on?
You can not programmatically setup safe insert/remove cartridges. But there are hardware for enabling/disabling cartridge. By disabling a cartridge on startup, one can prevent cartridge software from ...
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Commodore 64 - any way to safely plug in a cartridge when the power is on?
From my experience back in the day, inserting a cartridge after loading and running a machine language monitor would more often than not disrupt machine operation, but would occasionally work in such ...
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Commodore 64 - any way to safely plug in a cartridge when the power is on?
Working on the assumption that cartridges are basically PCBs.
PCBs (and other connectors) can be designed to be hotplugged, and can be recognised as such by having fingers of different lengths such ...
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What can be done with a USR file on the Commodore 1541 disk drive?
From the DOS point of view USR files are mostly like PRG and SEQ files.
There are conventions with PRG and SEQ files, namely that PRG files have a two byte load address as the first to bytes and that ...
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