Thanks Ken,

I'm using the UART buffer right now. That has 375 bytes according to the
technical manual. That seems to be working but I'm hammering on it in
Virtual-T to make sure it does cold start the machine.
Kurt


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, at 10:01 AM, Ken Pettit wrote:
> Hey Kurt,
> 
>  On an NEC 8201a?  
> 
>  1.  Keyboard buffer
>  2.  UART buffer
>  3.  BASIC Floating Point number calculation space:
> 
>      M100:  TEMP 1 / FAC2 (Floating Point Accumulator) location (8
>             bytes each, consecutive):  FC60h>      8201a:  FB24h (I'm pretty 
> sure there are 16 bytes available here
>      also, though I'm not as familiar with the NEC ROM disassembly.> 
>  Ken
> 
> 
> On 1/23/19 8:04 AM, Kurt McCullum 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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