[Coco] Will the *real* artifact colors please stand up?

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Mon Jul 5 14:10:44 EDT 2004


At 11:48 AM 7/5/2004, you wrote:

>Hi,

>

>

>You partially answered your own question when you said "...depending on the

>CoCo's mood". You may have noticed that there are quite a few games that

>will have a red or blue box and tell you to press reset until the correct

>color is displayed. It is all a matter of timing. The patterns are the same

>for red and blue or purple and green, it just depends on when the pixels are

>placed on the screen.



I always thought of the random red/blue artifact issue as a bug in the CoCo
1/2 video. I'm not sure if the CoCo 3 has the same problem. If it does,
then the GIME is probably emulating this by using a random generator.


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