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undocumented funky coco3 stuff [message #281239]

Wed, 05 November 1986 23:26

fritzz
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Article-I.D.: net1.313
Posted: Wed Nov  5 23:26:31 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Nov-86 21:26:00 EST
Reply-To: fritzz@net1.ucsd.edu (john)
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  In the middle of the new roms on the coco 3 there is some very strange
code. The most interesting example of this is part of the old roms that
got left behind. There was a command on the coco2 called DLOAD which
was used to communicate between machines. On the coco3 it does some strange
stuff: type in DLOAD folowed by a colon, followed by alternating ctl and
alt keys (they look like @ and =). about three each should do. then hold
down both the ctl and alt and hit return. wowie zowie. then do a soft
reset and you're back to normal. It should look like this before
you hit return

DLOAD:@=@=@=


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