[Coco] Color Basic v1.4

Guillaume Major guillaume.major at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 18:39:23 EDT 2017


Thank you for your precisions!

Guillaume

"Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote in 
message 
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> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Zippster  wrote:
>
>> Hmm…  I wonder what’s different….
>>
>> - Ed
>>
>>
>
> Comparing it against the 1.2 version of Color Basic, I find the following
> differences:
>
> 1.  Version number changed to 1.4.
> 2.  Copyright year changed to 1985.
> 3.  Changed configuration code for the SAM (supports only 16K or 64K 
> DRAM).
> 4.  Disables the "fast" keyboard test similar to CoCo 3 Basic.
> 5.  Changes number of cassette leader bytes from 128 to 256.
> 6.  When searching for a cassette file, skips bad "Name" blocks rather 
> than
> ?IO ERROR.
> 7.  Changes "CLR 8"  to  "CLRB"  at $A95E  (a long-standing minor bug).
> 8.  Changes "STA 0,X"  to  "STA  ,X"  at $B55A.
> 9.  Replaces the "Garbage Bytes" (MICROSOFT! easter-egg) with zeroes.
>
>
> - Darren
>
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