[Coco] Korean Coco 2 question

[Bruce W. Calkins]

There are very few issues with Color Basic 1.2; however by the time this 
unit came out Extended Color Basic was popular.  Programs written for 
Extended Color Basic will generally error out with a SN (syntax) error. 
You should be able to upgrade to 64K with eight 64 by 1 chips and a jumper 
and there should be an empty 24 pin socket for Extended Color Basic. 
Finding a Extended Color Basic chip will be the trick though.  Once you have 
64k however you could load Extended Color Basic to RAM from tape.  A bit of 
a PITA but it is doable.  You cannot however run Disk Extended Color Basic 
without Extended Color Basic.  And loading Extended Color Basic and Disk 
Extended Color Basic from tape rarely works.  Also it does not take much of 
a blip to crash a system running from RAM.



Bruce W.



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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Jeremy Michea"

>I picked up this nice special edition Coco 2 (I say special edition because 
>of its slick yellow color wink wink) for $20 at a local video game store 
>and its the 26-3134 with 16k and Color Basic 1.2
>
> I’ve never owned one before and it seems to work fine, plugged in a couple 
> carts to try it out, all keys work. My question is – are there any 
> incompatibilities with this version of the coco 2? Does having Color Basic 
> 1.2 instead of an Extended basic limit what software works with it? (other 
> than the obvious 16k limitation)
>
> Thanks