----Commodore Trivia Contest Edition #37 Questions and Answers Preface---- Below are the answer to the Commodore Trivia Contest Edition noted above. I will wait a few days for the answers to circulate and any errors to surface and then score the entries. The newest edition of trivia should already be available. I encourage you to enter it. 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If you intend to use this information, please wait a few days after the posting date to allow for major errors to be corrected. Please mail any new questions for upcoming trivia (with answers) to: trivia-submit@mail.jbrain.com ----Commodore Trivia Contest Edition #37 Questions and Answers (BEGIN)---- Q $240) What POKE is used to disable RUN/STOP RESTORE and also scrambles LIST attempts on the C64? A $240) POKE 808,234. POKE 808,237 restores everything. Q $241) What happens if you run a program in BASIC 2.0 and it executes a CONT statement? A $241) The program gets caught in an endless loop. Q $242) What happens if you run a program in BASIC 7.0 and it executes a CONT statement? A $242) UNlike in BASIC 2.0, the statement is skipped. Q $243) What diference exists between generating a "beep" (Ctrl-G) on the C128 after RESET and after RUN/STOP RESTORE? A $243) The volume is set to a different level on a warm start than on a cold start. Q $244) In Commodore BASIC, is anything needed after the THEN of an IF/THEN statement? A $244) No. The command following the THEN is optional. Q $245) In Question $0B3, we noticed that the 64's BASIC 2.0 placed two spaces between the error text and the word "ERROR" in error strings. On what machine was this problem fixed and only one space appears? A $245) The C128. The C128D and C65 also fixed the problem. Q $246) What disk drive was introduced to be used with the Commodore 64? A $246) The Commodore 1541. However, intially, it was called the VIC1541. Commodore was confusing. Q $247) What upgrade to original PETs caused some machines to dISPLAY tEXT lIKE tHIS iNSTEAD oF dISPLAYING cORRECTLY? A $247) When early PETs were upgraded to BASIC 2.0, the character set ROM had to be replaced. The problem was that some PET boards had 28 pin ROM sockets, while others had 24 pin. The new character ROM only came in one size, so the models with the wrong number of pins on their board had to go without. Commodore had decided to flip the location of uppercase and lowercase characters in the ROM. Q $248) Newer Commodore 1541 drives have a multicolored "rainbow" pattern on the front decal. Name the colors in order from top to bottom that make up the "rainbow". A $248) Red, Dark Yellow, Light Yellow, Green, Blue. Q $249) Commodore disk drives have flip flopped on drive LED color meanings over the years. When the serial drives first appeared, green meant power and red meant access/error. With what drive did they swap the meanings? A $249) The 1571 swapped meanings. Later, the 1541-II and 1581 also used red for power and greeen for access, but the 1541C continued the alternate usage. Q $24A) Most late-model CBM VIC-20 sport a DIN style power supply connector. However, early VIC units utilize a different connector. How many pins did this early connector have? A $24A) 2 (two). American typically refer to the connector as a "electric Shaver" or "electric toaster" connector. Q $24B) Although Commodore produced mainly 80 column printers, it did introduce some "wide carriage" models. How many columns did these printers have? A $24B) 132 columns. Q $24C) What is the "nickname" for the Commodore logo? A $24C) Depending on who you ask, either "Chicken Feet", "Chicken Head", or "Chicken Lips". I like the second one best. Q $24D) When the Commodore 128 was introduced, a new Graphical User Interface was introduced to be used with it. Name it. (hint: not GEOS). A $24D) Jane. Q $24E) A stock C128 powers up showing how many bytes free? A $24E) 122365 bytes free. Q $24F) Of those, how many can actually be used to store BASIC code? A $24F) Bank 0 locations $1c00 to $fbff (57344 bytes). The information in this between the lines marked by (BEGIN) and (END) is copyright (c)1997 by Jim Brain. 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