The Final Cartridge III

It offered a fast loader, increasing the speeds of the disk drive, and a freezer, allowing the program execution to be stopped to be resumed later.

Of the tools in the cartridge ROM, the most useful were a text editor, a disk file management utility, a calculator, and an alarm clock.

The BASIC commands also allowed to return to the GUI desktop mode, or start the machine-language monitor.

It also allowed the use of some rudimentary game cheating functionality (disabling sprite collision detection, for example), and printing a copy of the screen image to the printer.

's Gazette praised the original Final Cartridge in July 1987 as "an outstanding addition to any Commodore 64 or 128.

The disk utility of The Final Cartridge III GUI, showing a disk's directory