[Coco] Color basic and available RAM

[William Astle]

Roughly 24K is right for a fresh boot on 32K.

To support more than 64K in a way that MEM would return a larger value 
would require a complete re-engineering of the entire ROM. The ROM is 
designed with the idea of a completely flat memory space including the 
ROM area. A surprising number of things would need to be modified 
substantially to work with a paged memory space.

On 15-02-11 08:41 AM, Joe Grubbs wrote:
> Throughout its life, was Color Basic never tweaked to utilize more than ~32K of RAM? It seems that on the 64K and 128K Cocos, ? MEM always spits back ~24K (which I presume is what the original 32K machines would say).
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> I apologize if this has been answered before. My original CoCo2 was a 16K machine so it's something I never considered before. It isn't until recently that I upgraded it to 64K and acquired new machines, all 64K+.
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