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Title: Save Space in BASIC programms with just a simple poke
Post by: SRS on 20:54, 31 May 16

For those of you that did not know this - I just found it today and got an adventure from 32 to 30k with just one POKE. Incredible !

Source -> http://tj.gpa.free.fr/html/coding/cpc_ram.htm (http://tj.gpa.free.fr/html/coding/cpc_ram.htm)

Load your BASIC program. (Example : "prog.bas")

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save"prog",A
POKE &AC00,&FF
load"prog"
save"prog.bas"

and READY !

Title: Re: Save Space in BASIC programms with just a simple poke
Post by: TFM on 21:27, 31 May 16

Well, an program saves as ascii is always longer than save in BASIC format, because BASIC is precompiled. What does the poke do?

Title: Re: Save Space in BASIC programms with just a simple poke
Post by: TotO on 21:47, 31 May 16

This POKE allow to remove the useless spaces from a loaded ASCII file.

Title: Re: Save Space in BASIC programms with just a simple poke
Post by: TFM on 19:17, 01 June 16

Quote from: TotO on 21:47, 31 May 16
This POKE allow to remove the useless spaces from a loaded ASCII file.

Well, nobody should put them in, in the first place. 8)

Title: Re: Save Space in BASIC programms with just a simple poke
Post by: SRS on 11:51, 25 December 16

There may be sources out there that have those spaces - so why should I remove the spaces manually while converting the games if a simple poke does the work for me :)
As an engineer I tend to be lazy and try to use automated solutions for manual work ;)

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