[Coco] The myth of the Coco3 256 color mode :)

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Yes GrafExpress had it, and I believe Jeff Steidl did that (the author of the excellent Photon game).

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On 2013-04-16, at 8:50 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Robert Gault<robert.gault at att.net>  wrote:
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>>> >There have been several recent threads about generating multi-color graphics screens on the Coco. One was for the Coco1 or 2, semigraphics was mentioned, and also the 256 color mode on the Coco3 prototype board. Also there is the flicker procedure where several different graphics screens are rapidly switched to yield a blended image.
>> So, for those of us not keeping up, how long has this been known about? Who figured it out? I think Linville's video player had something about this in it, and that was the first I'd ever heard of it.
>> 
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> Allen,
> I think the program GrafExpress was the first to use the technique. I don't have the program so don't know who wrote it. I assume it was a graphics editor but maybe not.
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