mirrorbird(01:13:16)
you should write a speccy demo. stretch yerself. there's the horror of lo-fi colour clash, but also you get REAL COLOURS like red and blue instead of baby-pink and sky-my-arse
Agemixer(01:11:55)
c64 basic area = $0800-A000 (38911+ bytes)
mirrorbird(01:10:34)
on the 128K it's about the same, but you can swap pages in and out. beware your interrupt
mirrorbird(01:10:19)
Age: on an old (48K) speccy it's 0-16383 = actual ROM. then about 7K for screen (yes it's cheap and ugly). then the rest is free.
mirrorbird(01:09:41)
"a char is a byte", i whisper this into Jon Skeet's ear while he sleeps, to give him nightmares. he wakes up screaming "WHAT WAS THE CODEPAGE? WHAT WAS THE CODEPAGE?"
Agemixer(01:09:40)
there's no other 'userspace', it is within the same 64k RAM, no separate data / code segments as some other platforms do