What's Wrong With Load"*",8,1 or LOAD"*",1 on C64
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 Published On Nov 25, 2023

Robin's pedanticism gets set off by incorrect Commodore 64 LOAD statements seen on t-shirts and documentary film trailers. We'll examine what's wrong with them and why, and explain how to fix them. And along the way we might learn a thing or two about loading from cassette and why accuracy matters - at least to some people.

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Index:
0:00 Details: A LOADed Rant?
2:09 Load"*",8,1
5:12 LOAD"*",1
7:00 Trying to load * from tape
11:45 How to load the first/next file on tape
13:42 $E4E0 Disassembly: the pause
16:18 PEEK(145) - the skip pause keys
18:30 Vintage mistakes
21:03 Magazine type-ins: accuracy matters
21:58 Thanks to my patrons!

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