Update on HHC Basics

[David Betz]

Has anyone who ordered one of these ROMs received it yet? I haven't 
received mine and I've tried to send Roger email on a number of 
occasions and have gotten no reply. Has anyone else heard from him?

Thanks,
David

On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Well, I have good news and I have good news... (and just a little bad 
> news)...
>
> I have now erased a bajangle of eproms, I have quite a few Basics 
> burned and lots of spare blank carts, so they'll hit the mail soon. I 
> have tomorrow off, so I'll prolly pack/address/ship then. If not, 
> definitely over the weekend. Tuesday nite was going to be my "Pack'em 
> up nite" but the wifeypoo got a line on a good job, so it was 
> transformed into "Rewrite the Resume nite."[1] Wednesdays are a PITA 
> for me (to work at 7:30am, get out at 8:30 pm or later) so I rarely 
> feel like doing anything after work. Of course, my LCD monitor "went 
> blank" Tuesday nite, so I had to figure out the cause of that last 
> nite... I was a grumpy dude by 11:00 pm. ;-) Turns out the LCD monitor 
> died... :-( I grabbed my wife's monitor and am using that temporarily 
> until I can get a new one in.
>
> I did test a basic cart in my HHC, and it seems to work fine, *except* 
> I think my RAM's a bit wonky, as once I create a program, then exit 
> BASIC, it thinks I have 2 bytes of free memory left. Weird. It might 
> also be a limitation as to *which slot* the chip goes into - I didn't 
> diddle with that. Or... I don't believe that the internal batteries 
> are functioning, so it might be a power problem causing the 
> wonkeyness... Anyway, the Basic itself comes up and it takes immediate 
> commands just fine, and I've entered in 2-3 line programs that run 
> fine until you exit basic, then it thinks there's no free memory left. 
> Like I said, weird.
>
> Anyway, I'll send out individual emails tomorrow with the status of 
> each order, but I wanted to let everyone know I didn't forget 'em!
>
> ;-)
>
> Laterz,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
> [1] After a 10-year hiatus from the workforce, it was quite a job!
>
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