*** COMMODORE 64 POKEs and PEEKs ***
10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5+RND(1));
20 GOTO 10
RUN
(C64 Poke and Peek)
Characters and the Screen
POKE 53272,21 switch to uppercase mode
POKE 53272,23 switch to lowercase mode
POKE 53280,C change border color (C=0-15)
POKE 53281,C change screen color (C=0-15)
POKE 646,C change cursor color (C=0-15)
POKE 53265,PEEK(53265) AND 23 turn off screen display
POKE 53265,PEEK(53265) OR 16 turn on screen display
The Keyboard
POKE 650,128 all keys repeat
POKE 650,127 no keys repeat
POKE 650,0 normal repeat
POKE 657,128 disable SHIFT-Commodore
POKE 657,0 enable SHIFT-Commodore
POKE 198,0 clear keyboard buffer
POKE 649,1 disable keyboard buffering
POKE 649,0 disable keyboard
POKE 649,10 normal buffering
POKE 808,239 disable RUN/STOP key
POKE 792,193 disable RESTORE
POKE 808,239:POKE 792,193 disable RUN-STOP/RESTORE
POKE 808,234 disable RUN-STOP/RESTORE and LIST
POKE 808,237:POKE 792,71 enable RUN-STOP/RESTORE and LIST
Miscellaneous
POKE 775,200 disable LIST
POKE 775,167 enable LIST
POKE 56341,S set cursor speed (S=0-255)
POKE 204,0 turn cursor on during a GET
POKE 204,255 turn cursor back off
POKE 19,65 turn off question mark during INPUT
POKE 19,0 turn question mark back on
POKE 54296,15:POKE 54296,0 make a click sound
Below list from IIRG Commodore Pokes & Peeks Page
(http://www.iirg.org/~iirg/c64pokes.html)
The IIRG Commodore Pokes/Peeks Page
The IIRG has collected these Commodore programming tips for you.We will be constantly updating this information as we
convert our Commodore archives over to the Internet.
poke 1,0 Disable Operating System (Default Value 1,1)
poke 198,0 Clear Keyboard Buffer
poke 198,0 Clears Keyboard Buffer (Default Value 198,0)
poke 22,35 Turns Off Line Numbers
poke 22,35 With List Command, Shows No Line Numbers
poke 53265,11 Turns Screen Off
poke 53265,27 Turns Screen On
poke 53272,21 Upper Case/Graphics
poke 53272,23 Upper Case/Lower Case
poke 56334,129 Clock Reset for 50 Cycle Current
poke 56590,128 Clock Reset for 50 Cycle Current
poke 649,0 Disable Keyboard
poke 649,10 Enable Keyboard
poke 649,15 Increase Keyboard Buffer
poke 650,0 Disable Repeat Function
poke 650,128 Enable Repeat Function
poke 650,64 Disables Repeat of All Keys
poke 774,0 With List Command, Shows Only Line Numbers
poke 774,141 With List Command, Vanishes Completely (Default Value 774,26)
poke 775,167 Enable List Command
poke 775,168 Disable List Command
poke 775,171 Causes Computer to Crash If a LIST Command is Attempted
poke 775,200 Disable List Command
poke 788,49 Enable Syop Key and TI$
poke 788,52 Disables Stop Key and TI$
poke 808,225 Disable Restore
poke 808,237 Enable Restore
poke 808,237 Restore Keyboard
sys 42562 NEW
sys 57194 Re-activates EPYX Fastload
sys 58235 Warm Start
sys 58260 Initialize
sys 58726 CLR/HOME
sys 59062 Advance Cursor
sys 59137 Previous Line
sys 59626 Scrolls a Line
sys 59903 Clears Line of Text
sys 64738 Cold Start (Reset)
sys 65126 Alternate Start
Speciality Commands
poke 792,peek(65532):poke 793,peek(65533)
Changes Restore Key to Reset
print peek(65408)
Test for Kernel Number
poke 808,225:poke 818,32 Disable Runstop/Restore
poke 808,237:poke 818,237 Enable Runstop/Restore
poke 56324,28:poke 56325,0
Slow List
poke 781,X:poke 782,Y:poke 783,0:sys 65520:Print”Your Message”
Prints Your Message at X=ROW Number, Y=Column Number
poke 214,X:poke 211,Y:sys 58732:Print “Your Message”
Prints Your Message at X=ROW Number, Y=Column Number
load”Program Name”,8:(SHIFT)(RUN/STOP)
Loads and Automatically Runs Program
>HISTORY
In computing, PEEK is a BASIC programming language extension used for reading the contents of a memory cell at a specified address.The corresponding command to set the contents of a memory cell is POKE.
“POKE” is sometimes used to refer to any direct manipulation of the contents of memory.
Statement syntax
The PEEK function and POKE command are usually invoked as follows, either in direct mode (entered and executed at the BASIC prompt) or in indirect mode (as part of a program):
integer_variable = PEEK(address) POKE address, value
The address and value parameters may contain complex expressions, as long as the evaluated expressions correspond to valid memory addresses or values, respectively. A valid address in this context is an address within the computer’s address space, while a valid value is (typically) an unsigned value between zero and the maximum unsigned number that the minimum addressable unit (memory cell) may hold.
Memory cells and hardware registers
The address locations that are POKEd or PEEKed at may refer either to ordinary memory cells or to memory-mapped hardware registers of I/O units or support chips such as sound chips and video graphics chips, or even to memory-mapped registers of the CPU itself (which makes software implementations of powerful machine code monitors and debugging/simulation tools possible). As an example of a POKE-driven support chip control scheme, the following POKE command is directed at a specific register of the Commodore 64‘s built-in VIC-II graphics chip, which will make the screen border turn black:
POKE 53280, 0
A similar example from the Atari 8-bit family told the ANTIC display driver to turn all text upside-down:
POKE 755,4
The difference between machines, and the importance and utility of the hard-wired memory locations, meant that “memory maps” of various machines were important documents. A canonical example is Mapping the Atari, which started at location zero and mapped out the entire 64 kB memory of the Atari systems location by location.
Pre and non-PC computers usually differ in the memory address areas designated for user programs, user data, operating system code and data, and memory-mapped hardware units. For these reasons, PEEK functions and POKE commands are inherently non-portable, meaning that a given sequence of those statements will almost certainly not work on any system other than the one for which the program was written.
POKEs as cheats
In the context of games for many 8-bit computers, it was a common practice to load games into memory and, before launching them, modify specific memory addresses in order to cheat, getting an unlimited number of lives, immunity, invisibility, etc. Such modifications were performed using POKE statements. The Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC also allowed players with the relevant cartridges or Multiface add-on to freeze the running program, enter POKEs, and resume.
For example, in Knight Lore for the ZX Spectrum, immunity can be achieved with the following command:
POKE 47196, 201
In this case, the value 201 corresponds to a RET instruction, so that the game returns from a subroutine early before triggering collision detection.
Magazines such as Microhobby published lists of such POKEs for games. Such codes were generally identified by reverse-engineering the machine code to locate the memory address containing the desired value that related to, for example, the number of lives, detection of collisions, etc.
Using a ‘POKE’ cheat is more difficult in modern games, as many include anti-cheat or copy-protection measures that inhibit modification of the game’s memory space. Modern operating systems may also enforce virtual memory protection schemes to deny external program access to non-shared memory (for example, separate page tables for each application, hence inaccessible memory spaces).
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