Classic Computer Magazine Archive Article from Compute! magazine

Commodore 64 Unblinker
This program will remove the blink from the cursor on the Commodore 64 without affecting anything else. The program is a BASIC loader for an interrupt-driven machine language program. It will remove itself from memory when you run it, so be sure to save it first.

10 REM NO-BLINK                  :rem 127
20 CK=0:FORX=688T0722:READA:CK=CK+A:POKEX
,A:NEXT                           :rem 52
30 IFCK<>4197THENPRINT"ERROR IN DATA STAT
                 EMENTS":STOP    :rem 146

40 SYS688:NEW                     :rem 45
50 DATA 120,169,189,141,020,003,169,002
                                 :rem 117
60 DATA 141,021,003,088,096,032,234,255
                                 :rem 121
70 DATA 072,165,203,201,064,208,008,165
                                 :rem 122
80 DATA 207,240,004,104,076,097,234,104
                                 :rem 121
90 DATA 076,052,234              :rem 168

    Hitting RUN/STOP-RESTORE will enable the normal cursor blink. SYS 688 will restore the Unblink routine.
Jim Bernard
Thank you for the contribution.