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But from disk drive you needed to type LOAD"*",8,1 for it to load into something other than BASIC start address.

If you hit shift+run stop at the end of the command it'd load and run.

I think you could also autorun from disk as everything is memory mapped on the C64, but you couldn’t make it reliable nor portable.

See for instance this page which explores some of the possibilities (and problems)