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chorizo 65 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

Got grounded for “breaking” the computer by POKE’ing random numbers to 0 to 65535. In my defense, I was 11.

vunderba 65 days ago [–]

Haha same. I definitely crashed our family's PC quite a few times as a kid by forgetting to set the segment address to &HA000 and then poking, mistakenly assuming I was hitting mode 13h VGA memory.

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