loading full ram banks in basic

[JohnGill]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with loading completely full ram banks from disk in BASIC. I've got a file that's 8194 bytes (2 location header bytes + 8192 data bytes) and when I try and load it up with:

POKE $9F61,1: load"bank1.prg",8,1,$a000

then it just loads memory with a bank full of zeros, seemingly ignoring the file completely.

If I trim 2 bytes off the "bank1.prg" file size, to exactly 8192 bytes (2 location header bytes +8190 data bytes) then it loads into the bank fine, leaving two empty bytes at the end of the bank.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this an emulator "feature" that needs addressing?  

thanks

[AndyMt]

I think this is more of a Basic or even Kernal problem. It looks like the location header is not taken into account when calculating the actual size. What happens if you load let's say 4k? If then 2 bytes are missing as well, then it's consistent. If not, then there is some error in there.

What happens if you load the 8k into base memory? Let's say at 16k?

Edited July 6, 2020 by AndyMt

[JohnGill]

16 hours ago, AndyMt said:

I think this is more of a Basic or even Kernal problem. It looks like the location header is not taken into account when calculating the actual size. What happens if you load let's say 4k? If then 2 bytes are missing as well, then it's consistent. If not, then there is some error in there.

What happens if you load the 8k into base memory? Let's say at 16k?

Thanks for this Andy, I'll investigate...