EXPANSION MANAGEMENT: LIST OF AVAILABLE BANKS

This example prints the starting addresses and the size of all available memory banks. If the address is 0, this means that the bank cannot be reached directly with an access but only through the primitives made available by ugBASIC.

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SOURCE CODE ()

PROCEDURE example ON COCO3, C64REU

    CLS
    
    PRINT "BANK LIST"
    PRINT "---------"
    PRINT

    IF BANK COUNT = 0 THEN
        PRINT "Sorry, this target "
        PRINT "  does not have any memory bank"
    ELSE
        FOR i=0 TO BANK COUNT - 1
            IF i = BANK() THEN
                PRINT "*";
            ELSE
                PRINT " ";
            ENDIF
            PRINT i;") AT ";BANK ADDRESS(i);" ("; BANK SIZE(i);" bytes)"
        NEXT

        PRINT

        PRINT "* = actual bank selected"
    ENDIF

END PROCEDURE

    example[] ON COCO3, C64REU

How to compile and run the example

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Commodore 64 + REU

In order to compile the example, type this command on the command line:

Linux

ugbc.c64reu -O d64 -o expansion_bank_01.d64 expansion_bank_01.bas

Windows

ugbc.c64reu.exe -O d64 -o expansion_bank_01.d64 expansion_bank_01.bas

For Microsoft Windows users we suggest using UGBASIC-IDE, which allows you to download and compile this example with just one click.

TRS-80 Color Computer 3

In order to compile the example, type this command on the command line:

Linux

ugbc.coco3 -O bin -o expansion_bank_01.bin expansion_bank_01.bas

Windows

ugbc.coco3.exe -O bin -o expansion_bank_01.bin expansion_bank_01.bas

For Microsoft Windows users we suggest using UGBASIC-IDE, which allows you to download and compile this example with just one click.

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