Forth Help!!

[Pengwin]

I have just got Forth v2 for my Atmos, but I am having some problems. I was hoping someone out there might have experience with this and may be able to help.

After I load the editor into screens 1 to 7 using the command

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1 7 CLOAD

I can list the editor in all 7 screens, but when I try to comile it with

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1 LOAD

I get the following error

UU9 ? NOT FOUND

and yet I can find no reference to the symbol UU9 in any of the first 7 screens and as there is no continuation symbol at the end of screen 7, it shouldn't be trying to compile screen 8 or 9.
Anyone else had this problem?

[Dbug]

Are you sure that the tape is correctly loaded ?
When I see things with UUUUUUU it reminds me of loading errors, because U (ASCII code = 55) is the default value written in memory when booting an Oric for the first time.

Perhaps you are just getting unlucky and had a load problem.

[Pengwin]

Thanks, I'll try again. I've just got a new tape player, so I probably need to play with the volume setting.

[Dbug]

There is something that is doable also, is to reconstruct a good tape if yours is a bit flacky:

- You sample the tape on the pc many times, at various volume settings
- You convert to .TAP format using the tools from Fabrice
- Do a binary comparison of the various files, to see what are the differents bytes/bits
- Create a valid .TAP using the most common occurences of the various files
- Convert back to audio format, and record the .TAP on a brand new audio tape, or on a CD as an audio track (this last option has the added benefit of making it possible to save using Tap2CD, with the 10x fast loader !)

[Pengwin]

Solved it. It was my fault, I didn't read the manual properly.

When you first load Oric Forth, you need to issue the following command before anything else:

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EMPTY-BUFFERS

This does what it says on the tin and clear the crap that is residing in memory.

Now I can load and compile the editor without any problems.