[Coco] Color Basic versions

[Darren A]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Tormod Volden wrote:

> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Al Hartman wrote:
> > I don't know how the various versions interact. But, I would just use
> Color
> > BASIC 1.2 with Extended Color BASIC 1.1 to have the newest bug-fixed
> ROMS.
>
> According to http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Color_Computer_2
> (or http://users.digitalindigo.net/~techno/coco2.html where I think
> that info was scraped from) the latest Color BASIC is 1.3. I have no
> idea what the difference is.
>
>
>


Both versions of Extended Color Basic (1.0 and 1.1) can be used with ANY
version of Color Basic.

Color Basic 1.3 is for use on CoCo 2 models with the 74LS785 SAM chip. The
hardware initialization code was changed to support the 256 column DRAM
refresh mode.


- Darren