[Coco] Color basic 1.0, 1.2 differences.

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
Sat Jan 20 10:52:16 EST 2007


Robert Gault wrote:
> Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
> Memory was not detected by just the software. There are jumpers on the 
> boards that signal 16K or 32K RAM. There were also bypass caps that 
> needed to be removed when using 32K RAM.

Yep, and the jumper could also be used to specify 4K too :)

> The net result was that the Coco1 worked with 64K RAM. I've got an 
> F-board stocked that way and it had the original Extended Color Basic v1.0.

Ahh, but I was talking about plain non-extended color basic, version 
1.0, which seems in software to only detect 4K or 16K rams. Do you know 
what version of Color basic is in there ?

Cheers.

Phill.

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