For me, quite often I need more of two things, and I am keen to know if there is a way to increase these values in the settings file, without causing any negative impact on the operation of the PC Basic application.
One of them, is the quantity of files I have open with the open statement. Currently, the limit is three. I understand, that with GWBASIC, they had more than three, but held a few in reserve for their own use. Is it possible under PC-Basic to increase this quantity, without impacting on the PC-basic use of the likes of load and save etc?
The other is, an increase in memory. I am on a Windows10 PC, with quite a lot more than 64k bytes of memory at my disposal. I may as well see if I can take advantage of all this extra memory.
Is there a trick, or tips you can provide me with in respect either of the two above?
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Note that every additional file will reduce the available memory a bit - it's a trade-off. You can get a little bit more available memory (about 3K) by setting reserved-memory=0 (see http://pc-basic.org/doc/#--reserved-memory). Due to the ancient design (16-bit memory addresses) GW-BASIC and PC-BASIC can't address more than 64K memory.
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For me, quite often I need more of two things, and I am keen to know if there is a way to increase these values in the settings file, without causing any negative impact on the operation of the PC Basic application.
One of them, is the quantity of files I have open with the open statement. Currently, the limit is three. I understand, that with GWBASIC, they had more than three, but held a few in reserve for their own use. Is it possible under PC-Basic to increase this quantity, without impacting on the PC-basic use of the likes of load and save etc?
The other is, an increase in memory. I am on a Windows10 PC, with quite a lot more than 64k bytes of memory at my disposal. I may as well see if I can take advantage of all this extra memory.
Is there a trick, or tips you can provide me with in respect either of the two above?
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max-filesoption. Have a look here: http://pc-basic.org/doc/#--max-filesNote that every additional file will reduce the available memory a bit - it's a trade-off. You can get a little bit more available memory (about 3K) by setting
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Ok, it had taken a bit of experimenting and searching. I now have the settings working.
I clearly need to remove the hash # character at the start of the line for it to work.