New answers tagged memory-layout
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Any time the CPU writes to memory, it writes to RAM or I/O. Your example will zero out all the RAM, but also will zero any I/O locations. That's going to have the effect of disabling sprites, setting their colour to black, turning any sound off, etc etc. It might send a zero byte to the serial port or something as well, I'm a little hazy on exactly ...
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