[Coco] Color basic 1.0, 1.2 differences.

[Arthur Flexser]

Phill, you are correct that the original Color Basic 1.0 could only detect 4K or
16K of RAM.  

Art


On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> 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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