On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 6:32 PM Marc Rintsch <marc_at_rintsch.de> wrote: > On 29.10.21 23:50, André Fachat wrote: > > Doesn't BASIC recalculate the pointer when it loads the file? So it does > > not matter what the link address is on disk. > > Or for what these bytes were used when saved... > > Yes, the actual values in the saved file don't matter. So if > compatibility with the tokenised format is important one must > recalculate those values. I believe that's true for the VIC-20 and C-64 but not for the PET. I.e., you can load a program with pointers from any base address into a VIC-20 or C-64 and just "RUN", but the PET will load at the load address and not recalculate (nor repoint). -ethanReceived on 2021-10-30 02:00:04
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