[Coco] Color basic and available RAM

[William Astle]

Yeah, that would work. It's a fairly invasive set of changes to do the 
relocation but it can be done. You'd gain 15K or so doing that. With 
Disk Basic, you'd gain about 8K if you could do a similar set of 
relocations. It wouldn't generally be worth doing, though, and would 
totally break anything that relied on ROM routines, like the ever 
popular "EXEC44539".

On 15-02-11 09:20 AM, John Guin wrote:
> There were some tweaks that would move the Color Basic and Extended Basic ROMS around to give around 39K of free memory on a 64K machine.  I may not remember the specifics correctly - maybe one of the early years in the Rainbow had this?
>
> Never saw it used much, though.  I was always jealous of C64 owners for this (weird) behavior.  When they booted, they had much more free memory than the Coco.
>
> John