Posted By
siz
on 2020-07-26
05:39:49
|  Re: What do you think of 256k (or more k) expansions
gerliczer: you are right about Csory's expansion. Personally I'd prefer that way because with the Hannes way you have a bit less available memory (4x60k switchable + 4k common at most) and you are restricted to place all your common logic (like interrupts, banking, etc) under $1000 or $4000 (but in that case you have even less expansion memory: 4x48k + 16k). With Csory's you can use all the memory you have and you can move your 16k expansion "window" to any 16k page of the main memory.
But virtually no software exists that is capable of using the Csory expansion (only some of Csory's own tools use it). The Hannes one is a bit more "widely" used but if you search for effect 256k support 256K Support you'll see that it's 27 entries only. So currently no real benefit of owning one. (I also have a Lotharek one which is actually 512k).
I don't see the chance of using any of these expansions from BASIC. (You would have to create your own memory handling for BASIC which is not trivial)
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