Afaik the difference with the ramdisk in Basic v2.0 and v2.1 had indeed to do with the ramdisk. I think that in the one version the size was given in number of kB and in the other version in nr. of bytes. Or something like that, I don't know exactly. Anyways the error sounds strange indeed...
About the _memini(value)syntax, the ramdisk uses the ram which is normally paged 'behind' the bios and the basic rom. The number of bytes allocated must be at least 1023, and the actual number of bytes available should be decreased with 768 which is needed for the file allocation table (so 1023 is a pretty small ramdisk). Also, the total number of bytes used for the ramdisk is always a multiple of 256, so the given value +1 (don't ask me why) is rounded down. So the final size calculation is: ((value + 1) and &HFF00) - 768 The maximum value which can be specified is 32767. If you specify a number < 1023 then the ramdisk will be removed. Also, apparantly the files on basic's ramdisk can only be accessed sequentially, so no open "" as #1 len=n random access. And without a specified size the allocated ramdisk size will be the maximum size, with 32000 bytes available. ~Grauw --- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!! _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
