[Coco] Re: Newbie help: Barden Bubble w/ Portal-9

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:21 AM 1/29/2004 -0500, you wrote:
There is no such range so it can't be documented. Safe addresses can't be 
determined without knowing what the program intends to do. I have written 
programs that use all 512K bytes of memory plus the ROMs of a Coco3. The 
only bytes not used to store code were I/O and GIME registers.

>In general, an ml program should not overwrite any portion of memory where 
>there is code that the program intends to access. If this sounds vague, 
>think of memory as a very large chalk board where you have been writing 
>equations. You need to get more of your ideas down on the board without 
>erasing what is there. Also you can't write anything on the small space 
>where the room light switches come through the board. So, you write 
>wherever there is any unused board space. If it turns out that some of 
>your equations are wrong or will not be used anymore, then they can be 
>erased and new material written down.

Holy cow, I hope for both of our sakes that he knows what computer memory 
is and how it works.  If not, (big deep breath), I guess we've got our jobs 
cut out for us.  :)


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Roger Taylor