Talk:Remarks: One-Liners

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who wrote this and what does it mean?!

These one-liners make good use of the print and poke commands. We know that PRINT was inherited from the earliest Dartmouth BASIC implementation. Did Bill Gates invent the POKE command?



  • Everything Random

10 poke 1024+rnd(0)*1000,78 20 poke 53248+24,timeand255 30 poke 53248+17,(time/10)and255 40 poke 53248+22,(time/9)and255 50 poke 54272 + rnd(0)*25,rnd(0)*256 60 poke 1024 + rnd(0)*1000,rnd(0)*256 70 goto 10


these are too dangerous and bizarre to be distributed in a book like this.

  • Crazy VIC-II

10 poke 53248+rnd(0)*46,rnd(0)*256: goto 10

  • Nutty VIC-II

10 poke 53248+24,rnd(0)*256: goto 10


This is too hardcore: Commodore 64 users have experienced so many different system crashes that they can be aesthetically categorized. For example, the following one-liner:

  • Snowcrash - do not use on real Commodore 64

10 poke 53248+24,timeand255: goto 10

  • Crashes I Have Known and Loved.

Also, this one-liner imitates a particular set of crashes, those involving complex writes to the video hardware: 10 poke 53248+17,(time/10)and255: goto 10

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