Final Cartridge III
More info
- Manufacturer
- Riska B.V.
- Released
- 1987
- Type
- Utility cartridge
- Platform
- Commodore 64
An all-in-one cartridge for the Commodore 64 with a fastloader, a freezer and a desktop interface.
The Final Cartridge III, sold by the Dutch company Riska B.V. around 1987, bolted a whole toolkit onto the Commodore 64's expansion port: a fastloader, a machine-code monitor, extra BASIC commands, and a freezer that could halt any running program to save, cheat or crack it.
Its windowed desktop with mouse-driven menus was a small marvel on a 1 MHz 8-bit machine. Cartridges like it — and the rival Action Replay — were standard kit in the C64 cracking scene, where the freezer button was how many a crack began.