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

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/5/04 3:24:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KnudsenMJ at aol.com 
writes:

> ISTR that the Coco3 has a more thorough power-on reset in its GIME, hence 
>  will always come up the same color.  No random number generator, but some 
> games 
>  were written so that if you held the ESC key while switching on, the 
> opposite 
>  clock phase would be re-initialized in the GIME to reverse the colors.
>  Maybe that ESC trick was coded into the Super-Extended BASIC ROM, so that 
it 
>  would work on old Coco 1/2 games?  Been a long while.  --Mike K.

Yep, been so long is right -- it is indeed the F1 key, RESET on the right 
rear and not POWER ON.  --Mike K.