Posted By
MMS
on 2019-04-23
16:28:52
 |  Re: PRINT statement fills the RAM
Just a remark/idea, as I am not so much in the details:
some of the these BASIC routines may call/use Kernal routines too. Definitely it saves ROM space to call standard subroutines (while not so good for the speed).
Kernals should be very same on both machine, furthermore the C64 sees on 38K RAM in BASIC, the rest is not accessible
So maybe the same happens on C64 too, just the Kernal routine writes to such a hidden RAM area, not allowed in C64 to be used (due to parallel ROM area). Such RAM areas exists on C64 (as it has 64K RAM too, but just 38K visible in BASIC), but the full 6!K not so transparent towards customer/Basic programmer.
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