System Requirements

Specific System Requirements

There have been many products produced for the Commodore 64 and 128 computers, many of which have special features and/or requirements that can be accounted for in Color 64. In the following sections, I will try to describe how to best set up your system with various hardware configurations.

Things to remember:

Some systems require that special routines be merged into the main overlays and other programs; these routines have been included as separate merges on the included diskettes. Each of the following sections will describe which systems need merges and how to use them. All merges have been designed so that they can be combined with each other without interfering with any of the other merges. You must have a utility program (such as BAID) that allows you to merge BASIC programs before you can use these files. Lt. Kernal users can use the built-in utilities for this purpose.
Remember to do all the mandatory changes BEFORE you start your system up and remember to make the changes to the "√bbs.xxx" and "xxx small" overlays before using them in modules and overlays.
Do not use the original Color 64 disks to save the changed overlays. Otherwise, if you change your system configuration later, you will not have the original files anymore. Make a backup of your Color 64 disks to reduce the possibility of losing everything.

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