[Coco] Extended color basic to Color basic on COCO 2

[William Astle]

Actually, the "SOUND" command is plain Color Basic so if that isn't 
working, something else is going on in addition to the ROM stuff Art 
mentioned.

On 2013-05-20 22:04, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> For some reason, the computer has stopped recognizing that you have
> Extended Basic, which is required for the SOUND command and many
> others, and also required for use of a disk drive (in addition to Disk
> Basic, which is contained in the disk controller cartridge).
>
> The most likely possibility is that the Extended Basic chip's contacts
> have become oxidized.  Opening up the computer and removing and
> re-seating the chip will likely fix things.  Look for a chip that says
> Tandy on it.  (Some CoCo 2s have Color Basic and Extended Basic in the
> same chip, but yours likely doesn't if Color Basic is still working.)
> I'd reseat both Tandy chips, so you don't need to know which is which.
>   Just make sure the chips go back facing the correct direction--check
> the notch, and be sure no pins are bent underneath.
>
> Art
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Matthew <Scooby95531 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Okay so my uncle gave me a COCO 2 computer, he had no idea if it worked or
>> not, when i turned it on it worked, i noticed there was some commands written
>> on the machine, like sound, the strange thing is that when i turned it on then
>> it said Extended Color Basic, not sure which version, it also said Copyright
>> Microsoft, if it said anything else i do not remember, and when i used the
>> sound command it played beeps based on the DURATION and FREQUENCY i specified,
>> then a few days later when i turned it on it now says Color Basic 1.2 (C) 1982
>> TANDY and sound no longer works.
>>
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