How much RAM does the C64 have that is realistically available for the user?
Being a speccy coder, there is about 40K of the 48K available for code and data. 7K is for the screen that is fixed and cannot be changed. There are some system variables and stack that be written to if you desperate but careful.
Raymond Russell
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