[Coco] Cryptic BASIC program

[Darren A]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Robert Gault wrote:


> This may or may not work depending on how the RAM size bits work. This
> method is not, in my opinion, a good test for functional RAM. Actually the
> test really should be dependent on whether the jumpers on the mother board
> were correctly switched from the 16K position.
>


It is not a good substitute for a real RAM test program. It merely checks
the jumper setting which Basic uses at initialization time to decide how to
configure the SAM chip.  I'm not sure if the CoCo will even boot correctly
when the SAM is configured for the wrong type of RAM chip.

- Darren