Sounds like it is crashed. Try cold starting it and see if memory is back to normal. The typical ways this happens is running an ML program with a bug or attempting to load a untokenized basic program with a BA extension.
Logical operators can be used for masking and whatnot. But to shift in BASIC you need multiplication and division by powers of two. -- John. On Sunday, July 3, 2016, Josh Malone <josh.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, > > I was sitting down to hack on some basic code ( > https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/4qs0f3/july_is_basic_month_the_challenge_turtle_graphics/) > and typed in a quick basic statement to verify that Tandy 102 basic has > bitwise operators (it seems to). The command was something like "print c > and 2" or something stupid like that. To my surprise, my 102 reset itself. > All my files were gone (backed up, so no real loss) but now the menu is > showing 21446 bytes free. Some gremlin has stolen 8k of my RAM! > > I'm so perplexed by this, I just opened up my 102 to visually verify is > has 32k (indeed, all 4 RAM chips installed - although 1 is a different chip > than the other 3). I've let the system sit for >1 hour with memory switch > off and power removed. No change. > > What on earth could have happened? > > Last clue I have is that I re-loaded FILSIZ.BA and when I run it, I get > OV error on line 9. > > Thanks for any help anyone can provide. > > -Josh >
