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2600 Magazine Defeats Ford

Posted by michael on from the parry-and-riposte dept.

narftrek cut-and-pastes the text from 2600's announcement that Ford has conceded the case they brought against 2600 over a certain domain. Our earlier story has some background. A Volvo repair shop near me is named "Island Vo Vo"; the L is silent, you see, because Ford really sucks.

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  1. Re:Here's Why by Latent+IT · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sig Reply: Wow. That's from a C64, right?

    Load "$",8,1
    LOADING
    READY.
    list

  2. Re:Here's Why [wildly off-topic] by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    > Sig Reply: Wow. That's from a C64, right?
    > Load "$",8,1
    > LOADING
    > READY.
    > list

    That actually doesn't do what you think it does...

    The final ",1" argument will attempt to load the directory listing as a machine code file instead of a BASIC program, so you won't get a useable directory listing.

    What you really want is LOAD "$", 8.

    (For anyone who cares, the Commodore machines made the directory table of a tape or diskette available as a special file called "$". You LOADed the special file from a device (1 for tape, 8 for diskette), and the names of the files were loaded into memory, in the form of a BASIC program that you could then LIST.)

    Heh heh, fond memories. Those were good days, I adored my C64, but I sure wouldn't want to go back!