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Macer_D
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Posted: 09:24am 25 Apr 2026
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Hi all, new member here. I just got my Colour Maximite 2 in the mail yesterday, and I've been having lots of fun with it. I have a question about the program size limitation - it says in the manual that the maximum size of a program is 512k as a plain text file. Does the include command allow the user to bypass this limitation, or does the file it includes count towards the same total? Thank you for your time.

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matherp
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Posted: 09:43am 25 Apr 2026
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512k is a hard limit for the whole program. It represents over 10,000 real world line of code
 
Macer_D
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Posted: 10:30am 25 Apr 2026
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  matherp said  512k is a hard limit for the whole program. It represents over 10,000 real world line of code


I see, thanks. Do images and sound files count towards the program size? Also, do you know of any programs that reach this limit?
 
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This limit is just the actual code. AFAIK no-one has got remotely close. A program that calculates solar_eclipse and is 3000 lines long is less that 80K
 
Macer_D
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  matherp said  This limit is just the actual code. AFAIK no-one has got remotely close. A program that calculates solar_eclipse and is 3000 lines long is less that 80K

Fantastic. I guess in that case you could even import a separate plain text file without it counting toward the limit, couldn't you?
 
PhenixRising
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Well you have 32MB RAM. I use the CMM2 but don't fully understand the memory thing because I don't require much but I believe that it can accommodate arrays. The manual states "for larger BASIC programs."
 
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