[Coco] Time Bandit - CoCo 3 version?? Or...what version is this?

[Blake Patterson]

The CoCo shots on my site, it seems likely, I grabbed from the MobyGames
page here:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/trs-80-coco/time-bandit/screenshots

I believe I have located Matt Gifford on Twitter, owner of the now-defunct
blog where I found the "Sanyo images," and have contacted him, though I've
heard nothing back as yet.

It does seems likely that those images are some kind of nostalgic fan
tribute to the CoCo version. I'd love to know who generated them along with
their story.




bp


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jayeson Lee-Steere <
cocolistemail at titaniumstudios.com> wrote:

> As a reference point, those original images contain almost 800 colors
> between them, one has 391 unique colors. That combination of low Coco
> resolution and very high color count indicates to me a nostalgic work.
> Heck, someone may have just retouched the 4 color Coco shots as a concept.
>
> Google's image based search finds no current versions of those colored
> images, other than your copies Blake. Ironically, what is a apparently a
> composite of a colorized Coco version over a Sanyo MBC is now the cover
> shot of Gerry Brophy's MBC Archive site:
> http://www.eriscreations.com/sanyo/ .
> Especially so, since he has screenshots of the very different, actual MBC
> version.
>
> Blake, where did your 4 color Coco images come from?
>
> Jayeson
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Jayeson Lee-Steere <
> cocolistemail at titaniumstudios.com> wrote:
>
> > Where did you get the Coco and unknown platform pics?
> >
> > The 4-color Coco pics look to be from an accurate Coco/Coco emulator
> > capture. Note that these would have originally been 2 color and converted
> > to 4 color by an algorithm that mimics NTSC artifacting. The algorithm
> used
> > here is not particularly accurate - the width of a lot of pixels is off
> and
> > it is missing some mixed colors - there should be some green tints in
> there
> > at least.
> >
> > The unknown shots look to me like someone's project, and probably from
> the
> > same source as the 4 color pics. Both 4 and high-color versions have the
> > same outlines. The high-color versions have a lot of colors in them -
> more
> > than a Coco 3 can display. It appears that each Coco sprite image has
> been
> > assigned new colors for red and blue, and then procedurally "lit" from
> the
> > top left. One might do this if they had fond memories of the game but
> found
> > the primitive graphics difficult to deal with now (I fall into that
> > category but this is not my work).
> >
> > As a side note, it is generally good form when posting someone else's
> > material to attribute the source, and, it helps avoid situations like
> this
> > where important information is lost.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jayeson
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Blake Patterson <blakespot at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I am a big fan of Time Bandit from MichTron / MicroDeal. I enjoy it
> >> primarily on the Atari ST. I do have the CoCo I / II version, though.
> >>
> >> I made this post some years ago:
> >>
> >> http://www.bytecellar.com/2004/10/26/time_bandit/
> >>
> >> Look down at the pics. The CoCo I / II version is right there, labelled
> as
> >> such. But the version I labelled the Sanyo MBC-550 version is NOT the
> >> Sanyo
> >> version, I've just discovered. I just came across screens of that
> version
> >> and it is definitely not the one shown in my post.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/8613890082/in/set-72157633146005641/
> >>
> >> So...I'm trying to determine what version is pictured in my post,
> >> mislabelled as the Sanyo version. The shape of the graphics looks nearly
> >> identical to the CoCo I / II version, but with much better color.
> >>
> >> Was there a CoCo 3 version in the works? I don't think it was ever
> >> released, if so. Any ideas here?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> bp
> >>
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