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Re: Applesoft Basic size limitations?



In article 
<9718d979-9487-4857-aed0-34b3174ea0cf@ki5g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,
 Brian <bpicchi@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I thought I'd write a simple game for the Retrospectiva 
> competition.  I've made a few lores games in the past, but wanted to 
> write this one in hires.  Only problem is every time my file gets to 
> around the 14000 bytes mark, it starts to trip out (I get annoying 
> horizontal lines through several rows).  Reducing gosubs doesn't fix 
> it, the only thing that seems to work is reducing the size of the 
> file by tightening up my code and reducing unnecessary characters and 
> long remarks I made.  What's the byte limitation?  Or is there a 
> limit to the number of lines?  My lores games were around 18000 bytes 
> and 800 lines or so.  I apologize for my ignorance :)

Applesoft Basic programs start at $(67.68), typically $803 (2051). HGR2 
starts about 14K later at $6000 (24576). It sounds like your program has 
grown into the screen are of memory.

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John B. Matthews
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