LOAD"*",8 vs. LOAD"*",8,1 on the Commodore 64

What's the difference between LOAD"*",8,1 and LOAD"*",8 ? We take a look at several games which require these and other incantations to start, and explore the concept of the load address of Commodore PRG files. Links: Michael Doornbos' blog: https://imapenguin.com/tag/retro/ PETSCII Robots by The 8-Bit Guy: http://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots/ To support 8-Bit Show And Tell: Become a patron: https://patreon.com/8BitShowAndTell One-time donation: https://paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell 2nd channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCAgWzEh5c8391eJnELDy9OA Music is "Unsaved" from the album "Place Without A Computer" by Bedford Level Experiment: https://bedfordlevelexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/place-without-a-computer Index: 0:00 Intro 2:38 Master of Magic - BASIC Loader 4:41 Autoduel - Autostart! 5:46 Finding Start Address with Super Snapshot monitor 6:26 Examining Autoduel's autostart in MLM 7:45 Platoon's two-faced loader 10:54 Disk directories: only LOAD"$",8 12:38 Gravinauts: saving machine language to file 16:33 Ultima III: only LOAD"$",8 18:21 Attack of the PETSCII Robots 21:14 Ultima II: "*" doesn't work! 23:31 Finding load address with Model 1541 Test/Demo Diskette 25:20 Finding load address with Fast Hack'Em 30:03 Command wedge: / and % 30:34 Thanks/Credits