From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2004-06-28 18:34:12
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Groepaz wrote:
> On Sunday 27 June 2004 22:06, Aavo Tambur wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have the heard some intriguing rumors about VIC-20 and 6502 processor
> > and I thought some of you could shed some light upon this. The following
> >
> > is a direct quote from a friends friend:
> > > > > 6502 prossesor had a poke command that shorted out the VIC 20
> > > > > computers..
> > > >
> > > > Do you happen to know the poke sequence???
> > >
> > > Do an incremental pocking counting ..
> > > its near 38K something .. but it will burn procesor and memory ..
> >
> > Can this be true?
>
> thats nonsence.
>
> on some PETs its possible to kill the monitor with a POKE (by setting
> invalid video timing or sth) though :)
That's also nonsense, but we have had this discussion before.
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