Author: Yves Gablin (machine64.rd.francetelecom.fr)
Date: 01-03-2002 13:09
I've read somewhere (but I'm not sure it was about an Atari machine) that on the real machine you could sort of "half-reset", just a slight touch of the reset button, and it resulted in a partial blank of memory, which somehow occured always with the same pattern. And so some programers took "advantage" of that, so that if you were good enough to achieve the slight press of the reset button in the right way, the memory rearangement had the effect of dropping you in a kind of bonus-level, where the game rules were not quite the same (The Extra-Cheat)...
Is this true? Is this about the machine you're talking about? I don't know. Nevertheless, the same article (I don't have the URL, sorry) said that no emulator could do that.
Yves.
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