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

[Robert Gault]

Nick Marentes wrote:
> This 256 mode that we're talking about here is not a mode.
>
> It's more a technique for achieving extra colors by utilising the lower quality
> composite video (especially NTSC) to fool the composite monitor into creating
> extra color as was with the CoCo 1/2 and the artifact colors.
>
> Having said that, the example images that Joel (?) has put together are great!
>
> I wish my CoCo3 had NTSC composite output and an NTSC composite CRT monitor to
> see them.
>
> And that's the problem with this. There aren't that many (especially non US)
> people who have the ability to see NTSC composite. RGB has become the defacto
> standard.
>
> Nick
>

That's why we all wish you would figure out how to activate the "256 color mode" 
on production Coco3s. :)

You can see some images in this thread at
http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=23&sid=3014c6a337f84d675ee33e05067f3c5e

I expect to post several.

Robert