{"id":2175,"date":"2011-11-14T15:06:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T13:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T13:08:25","slug":"how-could-my-c64-sometimes-crash-so-hard-that-the-crashed-state-persisted-power-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2011\/11\/14\/how-could-my-c64-sometimes-crash-so-hard-that-the-crashed-state-persisted-power-off\/","title":{"rendered":"How could my C64 sometimes crash so hard that the crashed state persisted power-off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have vivid memories of this happening a few times, usually during an intense gaming session: the screen would become all garbled and the game would no longer react to input. I&#8217;d power down, then power back up again, expecting to get the BASIC prompt, and instead get the garbled image back there on the screen! And yet the C64 didn&#8217;t have the type of nonvolatile memory that surviving a powerdown in such a way would imply. The computer would eventually, after a long-enough powerdown, come back to its senses.<\/p>\n<p>As a kid I just attributed this to some advanced sorcery. As an adult the best I&#8217;ve been able to theorize is that the crash wasn&#8217;t caused by software failure but by the circuitry going awry due to overheating. This misfunctional state would persist even power-off, until the circuitry was again cool enough to function properly. Is this how it happened, or did the C64 actually have hidden nonvolatile memory capabilities far beyond its time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I just attributed this to some advanced sorcery. As an adult the best I&#8217;ve been able to theorize is that the crash was caused by overheating rather than by software failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3922],"tags":[11979],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aiheeton","tag-commodore","sijainti-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}