> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> FREE=(PEEK_L(163856)-PEEK_L(163852)-1024): PRINT FREE/1024 > > Bingo !! But, does this return the free memory or total installed memory?? > > I think the former... In SBASIC or Minerva speak, could also be:
sysv = 163840 : REMark QDOS IF v$ = 'JSL1' OR v$ = 'HBA' THEN sysv = VER$(-2) free = (PEEK_L(sysv+16)-PEEK_L(sysv+12)-1024) (or corrected version at least, that was from my memory, not much of which is free at the moment) Dilwyn > It calculates the memory gap between common heap and the SuperBasic > area. Of course this is not necessarily the largest free block of > memory, but it's unfortunately a widely used formula, IIRC even QDOS > itself used it. Only recent SMSQ/E versions do this better. > > Total memory is as said sys_ramt. Or in SuperBasic > print peek_l(163872)/1024-128 > > Ciao, Marcel >
