[Coco] silly question about ?OM/?FC errors

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Fri Dec 17 05:53:37 EST 2004


>From: "AtariJunkie" <eternyl_bliss at yahoo.com>
>Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:34:34 -0600


>Ok I admit it I forgot!

I had to look it up.
>
>I am testing all of my software and I have a lot of text adventure games
>that give ?OM erro or ?FC errors when running them
>
>I remember there was always a 'memory clear' command but don't remember it.
>There was something I used to type in to allow enough memory to run these...
>
>PCLEAR something? or CLEAR something?
>
poke 26,6:poke 3584,0:new
pclear 1

Tells BASIC not to reserve any space for pmode graphics screens.  For
some of the adventures off the Rainbow Book of Adventures n, you may
also need diskoff or diskoff3.

Willard
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