Shrinker

This utility will convert all numbers to VAL “number”. This saves a lot of memory and may be a blessing for long programs.

We tested it on THE MINOTAUR (August 1986), and it saved over 6000 bytes! One drawback is that the speed of execution is greatly reduced, but when you need the memory space it can sure help!

This program is particularly nice with TIMACHINE from Novelsoft (Toronto, Canada) as it may allow programs of more than 27K to be reduced to fit in memory.

SHRINKER is completely relocatable and is 328 bytes long. Just CLEAR base-1 (if over 23756): LOAD “SHRINKER”CODE base (address to be loaded at), then RANDOMIZE USR base. The program may be loaded on screen (16384) for large programs, but will have to be loaded again if the screen is cleared.