What procedure should I use for a cold start? I figured the memory power should do it.
On Jul 3, 2016 10:52 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
