[Coco] Color basic and available RAM

[Joe Grubbs]

Excellent, just read the article on your site. The explanation makes perfect sense as to why BASIC ROM was mapped to its current location.

I always wondered why PCLEAR 0 didn't work...

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From: "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com>
Sent: February 11, 2015 10:15 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Color basic and available RAM

> On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> 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).
>
> 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+.


Here is an article I put up recently about this very subject, including how to get the most out of BASIC without doing mods:

http://subethasoftware.com/2015/01/16/pclear-0-to-get-more-coco-basic-memory/

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