[Coco] coco I 4K contest
Rogelio Perea
os9dude at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 07:29:13 EST 2015
On Thu, Jan 1 2015, Arthur Flexser wrote:
Without disk or Extended Basic, a Basic program would start at $600. So,
> you have from there to $FFF for program and variables, less 200 bytes
> reserved for string space (reduceable by using a smaller value in a CLEAR
> statement), less maybe 20 bytes for stack space. That works out to 2339
> bytes, which should be pretty close to what PRINT MEM gives on a 4K Color
> Basic machine. (Assuming that the MEM function exists in Color Basic.)
>
PRINT MEM on a 4K CoCo reveals 2343 bytes out of the total available upon
boot.
You got pretty close with your numbers! :-)
-- RP
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