On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 1:21 AM Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2026, at 1:51 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is what I mean by a special string: > https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Extraordinary_String_Animals > > > In case anyone had as much difficulty parsing this whimsical document as I > did, here's the upshot with decidedly less of the fun: > > * VARPTR(A$) returns the address of a three-byte structure describing A$ > * Byte 0 is the length of A$ > * Bytes 1 and 2 are the LSB / MSB pair of a pointer to A$ 's contents > * This data can be POKEd at to retarget strings to arbitrary memory > contents, up to 255 bytes in length > > > One interesting application of this is rapidly dumping the RAM image to the serial port rapidly and with just BASIC. https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Model_100_RAM_Dump_One-Liners -- John.
