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How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.”

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Jason Van Hoy

I suddenly feel spoiled, only having had to connect a Tandy CoCo ROMPAK to a dual 5.25" external floppy, boot a secondary OS that could utilize that drive, and then browse a directory tree to play my Disney edu-tainment game from Sierra. I do remember early BBSes where you had to set the 300/600/1200/2400 baud switch on the external dial before connecting so the modems could talk.

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