From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   Richard VanHouten wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   It actually checks and refuses to run unless the memory size is set   
   correctly...   
      
   BTW CMD"dos-command" from basic is both so in LDOS and DOSPLUS   
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