Flashing Border Colors on the Commodore 128 in Machine Language

Jay's Commodore Podcast by Jay Versluis

Apr 18, 20188:21Technology

In this episode I’ll show you how to create the iconic flashing borders on Commodore machines. Back in the day, when the system was loading, this was a nice way to indicate that the computer is busy doing something...

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