From: thefadden@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 9:02:57 AM UTC-7, sc...@alfter.d   
   espammersdie.us wrote:   
   > The weird bit is that it appears to be disguised as a BASIC program so it    
   > can be LOADed and RUN, rather than BLOADed and CALLed.   
      
   That's the standard approach for C64, e.g. this is common:   
      
                   .addrs $0801   
                   .dd2  $080b           ;ptr to next line   
                   .dd2  $0014   
                   .dd1  $9e             ;SYS 2061 ($080d)   
                   .str  “2061”   
                   .dd1  $00   
                   .dd2  $0000   
      
   L080D           ldy   #$1e   
      
   In this case it's a HELLO program that starts when DOS boots, which IIRC   
   wouldn't work with a 'B' file unless you fiddled with something.   
      
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