Re: I must be losing my memory (83).

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Subject: Re: I must be losing my memory (83).
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@ALASKA.NET>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:55:29 -0700
Reply-To: Grant Stockly <gussie@ALASKA.NET>

Programs and calc functions take memory.  If you are running, say, spaze
invaders, you need about 5k free just to use the program.

>Okay. Rather odd. Maybe not.
>
>A reset TI-83 has approximately 27,000+ bytes to store, correct?
>
>I've copied some Basic & ASM games, frogger, tetris, and a few others,
>that would normally occupy 12-15kb, instead, hogging the entire
>calculator, till it's coughing at 1-2kb (sometimes less) and I get these
>memory errors. If i add up all the programs, vars, lists, pics, ETC, it
>adds up no where near 20+kb. ODD. Definently ODD. My friends with their
>83's have been boggled. (hehe and I'm still chugging along with 40kb of
>free space on my 86, *in a gallant laugh* HA HA! :)
>
>-(: Modem Boy :)-
>-(: -=TI-86=- :)-