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### 5.6 Resetting the machine

You can reset the emulated machine at any time by using the “Reset” command from the file menu. There are two types of reset:

- soft reset, which simply resets the CPU and all the other chips;
- hard reset, which also clears up the contents of RAM.

A soft reset is the same as a hardware reset achieved by pulling the RESET line down; a hard reset is more like a power on/power off sequence in that it makes sure the whole RAM is cleared.

It is possible that a soft reset may not be enough to take the machine to the OS initialization sequence: in such cases, you will have to do a hard reset instead.

This is especially the case for the CBM-II emulators. Those machines examine a memory location and if they find a certain "magic" value they only do what you know from the C64 as `Run/Stop-Restore`. Therefore, to really reset a CBM-II use hard reset.