Re: BeamRacer is coming… request for comments

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 11:10:23 +0200
Message-Id: <81A17B27-4621-4B50-BEFF-F408DD9DEF05_at_wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2020-05-26, at 08:10, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) <ruud.baltissen_at_apg.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hallo Patryk,
> 
> 
> First: chapeau! So that you know that my next comments are only there to improve your site.
> 
> About the 5 KB of RAM needed for the VBASIC: should I see it like that if you want to use VBASIC, only then you have to accept that you lose these 5 KB?

Yes, VBASIC additions need 5KiB and therefore your BASIC programs will have a little less playground. This is similar to what other BASIC extensions do.

> (and gaining a lot of other nice things of course) Thus when not using VBASIC, any other BASIC program is free to use this 5 KB of RAM.

Precisely that. Hardware itself does not impose _any_ restrictions on the memory (or anything else for that matter) usage.

> I assume that this VBASIC is loaded from disk (or other means)?

Yes, you can load it from your storage medium (disk, SD, ..) and run as regular PRG. It installs itself on top of BASIC mem, leaving the 4KiB at $c000 available for whatever ML routines you may want to augment your BASIC program with.

> I personally would not show the picture of the regular lumafix; just show the original picture and show what the BeamRacer can do.
> 
> An estimated price would be appreciated, just to fulfill my own curiosity.

This is not yet set as recently (due to the COVID thing) for example many of the component prices have changed. As of now we still wait for the confirmations of final BOM and manufacturing prices.

-- 
SD! 
Received on 2020-05-30 01:52:46

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