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From: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alex C. Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Basic Prg
Keywords: Eating up Screen Memory...
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Date: 10 Mar 90 03:27:13 GMT
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In article <3934@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
>In article <90030820244630@masnet.uucp> mark.fortier@canremote.uucp (MARK FORTIER) writes:
>>What is a good load address to start a basic program at, so it doesn'T
>>take up as much memory???  Thanx.
>Well, 2048 is a good location, the locations before that are usually
>taken up by a lot of system functions...  You might be able to get a
>couple of bytes extra at the beginning...  You might want to take at
>the Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide...

If you want to get as much memory for BASIC, you can relocate the
Screen Memory to the RAM at $C000 and add 1K of extra memory by
lowering the Basic Bottom to $0400.  You might even get away by using
up the tape buffer memory too if you use a tape.  Adding more memory
for BASIC, besides that is rather difficult.  And, frankly, adding
1.5K of memory is hardly worth the trouble...

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