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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Available ram with disk loading ?

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The problem is the vast number of DFS solutions available BITD. Acorn, Solidisk, Watford, Viglen, Opus,... And some of those had E00 verisons using SWRam.

Then add in modern variations; MMFS, MMFS2, MMC, UPURSFS, RAMFS in all their variations.

And the greater likelyhood that a modern device might have NFS so even the standard reserve "E00-1100" might not be true.

Anything you do will be compromise.

Since you need DFS to work I would not touch filesystem workspace in zero page (so B0-CF); you can't be sure one ROM or another might hit a location that Acorn didn't use.

I would be careful of NMI at &D00; at the very least have &D00==RTI just in case.

And throw caution to wind; skip E00-1100 but steal 1100 onwards (assuming you're not doing OPENIN/OUT/UP but just *LOADing files into memory)

Statistics: Posted by sweh — Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:59 am



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