Index: emu/cpu.c
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--- emu/cpu.c	(revision 8967dbc82d62f1e44271e88ec794c4604d874ecd)
+++ emu/cpu.c	(revision 74c44d9406ccd522e91346eb12f99828e87544fd)
@@ -379,7 +379,8 @@
 	}
 
-	// handle loading midas.abs
+	// once midas.abs gets loaded, activate RAM
 
 	if (addr == APP_START) {
+		ram_data[addr] = (uint8_t)val;
 		ram_rw_beg = APP_START;
 		ram_rw_end = RAM_START + RAM_SIZE;