Date   : Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:28:21 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <jasper@...>
Subject: Re: Master 512 problems

In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.970813152650.25257G-100000@...>, Neil
Pollard <pollard@...> writes

>*SREAD and *SWRITE no longer work, and give an 'illegal parameter' error.

<...>

>However the SRAM paged ROM seems to be okay at a first glance (*HELP SRAM
>works). The Master enhanced version of most of the games are okay - e.g.
>Exile, unless they call *SWRITE etc. in a BASIC program, in which case I
>get the error shown above.

>Reading the clock also seems to produce some stange control
>characters which break up the usual string format (is this related?)

Flat battery?  Type *ROMS and see if any are unplugged.
Use *INSERT to re-enable them.
Use TIME$="Sat,30 Aug 1997.12:26:00" to reset the time
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            must be exactly 24 characters
            and no space after the comma


-- 
Mike Tomlinson
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