[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Xpad an coco 1 16K

[Pierre Fortin]

OK, thank you very much Pedro for this information. I really have no 
luck, X-pad(nevertheless it is very clean and seems almost new ) which 
of works not and defective Multi-Pak...

Thank you
Pierre


Pedro F. Giffuni a écrit :

>
> Hello;
>
> I saw on the instructions that came with the memory upgrade (quite
> some years ago) and there were some changes required to update
> memory. There might be some resistor associated to Extended Basic
> that is giving you problems.
> The big problem is that Radio Shack made different boards and all
> have different instructions on how to upgrade them, so you cannot
> compare two different boards.
>
> Hmm.. the X-Pad... it's not really worth it, IMHO. I felt mine was
> too slow so I wrote OS-9 Pascal code to attempt to give it some use:
> I had to learn variant records to do the equivalent of Basic's peek
> and poke. At the end, even compiled code was not fast enough to drive
> it well. The Coco is a great machine to learn assembly though ;-).
>
> Hope you find some upgrade instructions somewhere :(.
>
>     Pedro.
>
>
>
> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, Pierre Fortin
> <pierrefortin at a...> wrote:
> > It is what I made, I have one 16K with Extended Basic but my X-pad
> does
> > not work more, anything displays in the screen when I move the
> pencil
> > and I followed well the instructions of the textbook(manual
> worker):o(((
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
> > Gene Heskett a écrit :
> >
> > > On Friday 10 December 2004 06:12, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >Because my Multi-Pak is defective I cannot test my Xpad because
> it
> > > > is necessary or Multi-Pak which works or a Coco 1 16K with BASIC
> > > > extented.
> > > >
> > > >I realized this morning that I had a coco 1 4K with BASIC
> Extended
> > > > and a coco 1 16K with BASIC. What is that I can change an
> > > > electronic piece(BASIC) to have a coco 1 16K with BASIC
> Extended.
> > > > If possible then which is the piece to be changed.
> > > >
> > > >Thank you
> > > >
> > > You probably can remove the second 'extended basic' chip from the
> > > 4k, and install it in the 16k model.  Hopefully, they are
> socketed,
> > > otherwise you'll need someone familiar with electronics soldering.
> > >
> > > >Bonjour,
> > > >
> > > >Puisque mon Multi-Pak est défectueux je ne peut tester mon Xpad
> > > >puisqu'il faut soit un Multi-Pak qui fonctionne ou un Coco 1 16K
> > > > avec Basic étendue.
> > > >
> > > >J'ai réalisé ce matin que j'avais un coco 1 4K avec Basic
> Extended
> > > > et un coco 1 16K avec Basic. Est ce que je peut changer une
> pièce
> > > > électronique(basic) pour avoir un coco 1 16K avec Basic
> Extended.
> > > > Si possible alors quelle est la pièce à changer.
> > > >
> > > >Merci
> > > >
> > > >



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