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.