[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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