Re:LZ: get more ram?

Subject: Re:LZ: get more ram?
From: David Madsen <madsend@toast16.oremhs.alpine.k12.ut.us>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 16:23:10 -0600 (MDT)
In-Reply-To: <199608301511.VAA19291@lnd.com>

I know that.. I was pointing that comment at the poster of the other 
message who thought his friend had upgraded his ram..  


On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Ed Plese, Jr. wrote:


> > I think you've been fooled!  there is a way to maka a 50k variable in RAM 
> > that takes up no space what soever.. check out ticalc.org in the bugs 
> > text file to see how.. :)  It uses the null char to do it somehow.. I did 
> > it once a long time ago.
> >
> 
> I don't know why you think we've been fooled... you have.
> The TI-85 has ONLY 32K of RAM with only 28K of it available to the 
> user.  There is no other way to put RAM in the calc unless you redo 
> the insides of it and rewrite the ROM.  All you have to do fool the 
> calc into thinking a variable is a different size is by changing the 
> first two bytes of the variable.
> 
> -Ed
>

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