@KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr @drwho if I recall, that's a command for a c64? It tells the interpreter to load whatever program comes up first while looking at a specific part of the tape (that's the 8,1 part I think)

@drwho @KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr \o/ I got it right! Even though I never ever used a c64 and instead had a spectrum!

@drwho @KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr (the joysticks for the speccy though could fuck right off. They were awful, pricy, fragile pieces of crap, very uncomfortable, and most kempston interface microswitch joysticks were "styled" after arcade sticks... But in the worst, most uncomfortable, most unresponsive ways.)

@Nine @KitsuneAlicia @mawr The speccy didn't have the same joystick ports as the C64?

@drwho @KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social @mawr I think it did have the same 9 pin sockets but the default "Interface 2" joysticks were garbage and most replacement ones weren't much better either. Cheetah made some okay ones but even they had flimsy shafts at the base, and given the propensity for joystick waggling games, well...

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