Re: Plus/4 C16 Questions

From: Andre Fachat (a.fachat_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2000-02-24 07:43:56

I guess as the PETs have at least 40 columns screen wide you donīt
need to check that. One problem, though. The start address of a Basic
program is different - $0401 for a PET, which is fixed, i.e. the
PET _always_ loads to the supplied start address, which makes it
fail to load C64 basic progs, that load to $0801.

The CBM-II even have a weirder loading scheme. Basic code starts
at address $0002 (in a memory bank different from the "standard" bank
with zero/stack page.

You could check all that with the VICE emulator if you like.

Andre

> > Why would you want to do that?
> [COPLIN, Nicholas.]  I'm writing a disk directory program and want the same
> BASIC program to run all IEC equipped CBM machines.  Hence I would like to
> know if I'm on a C16 or Plus/4 so that I can peek(lastdev) instead of
> peek(186).  On the Vic20 I need to "correct" for a 23 column screen, but
> Peek(186) is valid.  I have a programmers reference guides for the Vic, C64,
> C128... but no serious books on the C16/Plus4... was there ever a
> programmers reference guide released?
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