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   Richard VanHouten to DaveG   
   Re: New TRS80 User & TRS32   
   16 Aug 06 21:51:05   
   
   From: richvh@citlink.net   
      
   DaveG wrote:   
      
   > Sometime on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:45:32 -0700, christianlott1 scribbled:   
   >   
   >   
   >>How Many Files? 6   
   >   
   >   
   > Dunno about that.  Just press Return.   
   >   
   >   
   >>MEMORY SIZE? 48K   
   >>Syntax Error   
   >>MEMORY SIZE? 48000   
   >   
   >   
   > Just press return unless you know you need to enter something.  The   
   > "memory Size?" prompt is asking how much RAM you want to reserve for other   
   > uses after BASIC has loaded.  You just told it to reserve the entire RAM,   
   > more than is available to BASIC with DOS loaded.  For that matter, even in   
   > Cassette BASIC, not much, if anything, would work with 48k reserved for   
   > non-BASIC use.   
      
   No, he didn't.  The answer to the memory size prompt is the address   
   where reserved memory starts.  With a 48k RAM machine, that's reserving   
   slightly over 16k of memory.  The Dunjonquest programs actually need   
   reserved memory, since they poke the data file into memory for sharing   
   between the Inn and Dunjon programs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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