EEPROM

Well, that can all be programmed into a kernel ROM.

Now, back in the day, if you wanted to replace that on your real physical Commodore 64, someone was going to have to burn you a EEPROM.

and you would have to take apart your Commodore 64 and put a chip in, do all that kind of stuff.

But, If you're using an emulator or if you're using a mister or you're using an ultimate 64, any of those kinds of things, you can drop a custom kernel ROM right into the directory and use that.

You can burn an EEPROM easily now.

Yeah, if you were an enthusiast, you could, you know, do your own EEPROM burning.

That tech, I mean, you could write EEPROMs from a VIC-20, you know, so that part.

But, yeah, the reading and the writing out, you know, if you're having to... you know, hack up, you know, an existing cardboard or whatever.

Like it's, it's complicated.

Well, that can all be programmed into a kernel ROM.

Now, back in the day, if you wanted to replace that on your real physical Commodore 64, someone was going to have to burn you a EEPROM.

and you would have to take apart your Commodore 64 and put a chip in, do all that kind of stuff.

But, If you're using an emulator or if you're using a mister or you're using an ultimate 64, any of those kinds of things, you can drop a custom kernel ROM right into the directory and use that.

Yeah

... little hardwire devices that go on the EEPROMs.

Yeah.

And I'm like, I mean, you try to learn about that stuff online, but it's like this doesn't really translate too well there.

And, and so the problem was that you had to, the only way to test this, you had to write this, it's a very simple loop to write the program to see if a password would work and change it.

And, and, but it was EEPROM that you were writing to that password was stored in this erasable programmable read-only memory.

And so there were a limited number of writes there.

Oh.