[Coco] Coco 2 with Color BASIC 1.3

[Aaron Banerjee]

Ben,

Given the post (not the post you wrote, but the one the computer was  
displaying when it booted -- "COLOR BASIC 1.3 (C) TANDY"), and that  
those particular commands you mentioned don't work, my first guess is  
that you don't have an Extended Color BASIC chip in your computer  
(some Coco 2s don't).

To see how much memory you have, type "PRINT MEM" or "? MEM"  You'll  
either have 16K or 64K (was there a 32K COCO2?).  If you get 20  
something thousand bytes (help me out here folks), you've got 64K,  
otherwise, 16.

I don't think I still have an Extended BASIC chip in my junkbox, but  
if I do, I can send it with instructions on how to install it (and get  
commands like PMODE, SCREEN, etc to work).

           - Aaron

On Apr 26, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Ben wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just got my Coco 2 connected to my tv, it boots up to
> COLOR BASIC 1.3
> (C) 1982 TANDY
>
> My first question is, how much memory does it have? the label does  
> not state
> this.
>
> I tried pmode, and pcls, and screen commands and they don't seem to  
> work I get
> a SN error.
>
> Just some questions. thanks.
>
> Ben
>
>
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