[Coco] RAM SIZE INPUT mystery (solved)

[J.P. Samson]

On Sep 27, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Neil Morrison wrote:
> You'd think but some old, badly written programs expected 4K or 16K  
> only.
> IIRC if you had 32K they would respond like 4K or fail.
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:04 PM, J.P. Samson <jps.subscriptions at gmail.com 
> >wrote:
>> Perhaps this is an ignorant question of me to ask, but...
>>
>> Why would a CoCo 3 need to respond as if it were a 4kB machine?   
>> Surely a
>> computer with more memory would be just as good for any program?
>>
>> -- JP
>>

I personally wish they'd implemented a start-up key to do the  
equivalent of a "PALETTE RGB".  That would have been very handy for  
old CoCo 1/2 Program Pak games that used PMODE 1/3 graphics.

-- JP