POKE 788,82 on the Commodore 64 is a pretty good POKE. Some might say it’s the best POKE ever. But what if we add POKE 56515,4? Is it twice as good? Not really, but it was still interesting to figure out why it slowly filled (or cleared?) the screen.
Links:
Original POKE 788 video: https://youtu.be/DZgFafrS85s
Keyboard matrix: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Keyboard#Keyboard_Matrix
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Index:
0:00 POKE 788,82:POKE 56515,4
2:05 POKE 788,82 – review
7:58 A couple other notes about the two POKEs
11:10 About location 56515
14:07 How the keyboard is scanned
24:09 Demonstrating in BASIC
27:32 Why Super Snapshot breaks the POKE
33:18 Robin From The Future
34:35 Thanks!
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