Thanks Steve,

I'll look into that. Right now I found a bit of space using the serial
buffer for the 15 bytes of code. I need to determine if that will cause
issues elsewhere.
Kurt


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, at 8:33 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
> I would use the free ram in the LCD drivers.  For storage only.
> No code.> Also...keyboard buffer might be usable.
> I think Ken identified a hideyhole a while ago which I have
> forgotten...> 
> On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, Kurt McCullum
> <[email protected]> wrote:>> __
>> I'm working on a little piece of code that loads some stored code
>> from the option ROM on my NEC 8201a. I was able to tweak Gary Weber's
>> disassembler code to get the bytes from the option ROM. But here is
>> the problem. The code I am pulling down runs in the ALT LDC memory
>> space. Alt LCD is 320 bytes in size. I only need 315 bytes of this,
>> BUT, I need 15 bytes for the code to pull the data from the option
>> ROM. So there isn't enough memory in ALT LCD to put the temporary
>> loader AND the program I want to run after it is loaded. So I am
>> looking for another area of memory where I can put the 15 byte
>> loader. Is there another safe area I can momentarily use in RAM
>> without causing havoc?>> 
>> Kurt 

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