Re: Whatever happened to...

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz) writes:
>Well, why didn't you SAY so? :)  Umm, I don't know much about P8, but my advice
>is to use LOMEM and/or HIMEM to allow ProDOS to use more memory.  I always
>wondered why a 1.25meg //gs would get this error under P8, btw.  I never fig-
>ured out a way to solve this problem (although this was simply because of a
>lack of interest).  And, you can figure out the current LOMEM/HIMEM settings
>by way of a 
>100 LO=peek(106)+256*peek(105): HI=peek(116)+256*peek(115)

Under P8, you shouldn't fiddle with HIMEM because BASIC.System has it set as
high as it will go without trampling all over stuff and crashing the computer.
When you open a file, the buffer is allocated above himem and himem is
lowered automatically. Thus there's no reason to play with it.
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