Umm, sweet16 only took up 300bytes and in 212 bytes you could have added disk paging support; then you would have had virtual memory with 10 256byte pages that you could swap in and out to disk and have 170KB to work with.
Still got my Vic 20 in a closet. The video died somehow, but it’s still alive “in there”; when it died, I could still enter commands (blindly) to read the tape, for example, and see its effect, so if I ever just fix the video, maybe it’ll run again someday.
VIC-20 here. That 3K of RAM didn’t last long when programming. Dad saw I was hitting the wall and got me a 64.
Umm, sweet16 only took up 300bytes and in 212 bytes you could have added disk paging support; then you would have had virtual memory with 10 256byte pages that you could swap in and out to disk and have 170KB to work with.
Disk? What disk?
The 1541 (assuming that you didn’t opt for cassettes which could store more but had much worse latency and more tricky to control)
Still got my Vic 20 in a closet. The video died somehow, but it’s still alive “in there”; when it died, I could still enter commands (blindly) to read the tape, for example, and see its effect, so if I ever just fix the video, maybe it’ll run again someday.