[Coco] colorburst

[Mathieu Bouchard]

The 80's had their significant share of vapourware too. Apart from artists 
redrawing screenshots in a misleading way (redrawing screenshots by hand 
was a legitimate practice, but sometimes, CoCo screenshots with more 
colours than the graphics chip could do in that video mode, for example), 
there were a bunch of cases where the artist drawed from the screenshot of 
a never-released prototype of a ColecoVision game, perhaps sometimes even 
just a drawing without any screenshot to draw from (?). You can see them 
in the ColecoVision catalogue and I remember that there is/was a webpage 
that listed all the bullshit contained therein. From what I remember, the 
prototypes were quite far from release...

https://archive.org/details/ColecoVision_Game_Cartridges_Catalog_1982_Coleco_US
(click on the left or right page to flip back or forward)


Le 2015-07-03 à 11:50:00, Robert Hermanek a écrit :

> I'm guessing, based on the radio silence here on the list, and the fact 
> that google comes up with nothing good, that this thing never existed. 
> Which is a little disconcerting... I'm used to con's in the internet 
> age, but was the half page ad in the rainbow a fake? Or at best maybe a 
> prototype that never got any orders...
>
> On 7/2/2015 1:07 PM, Michael Brant wrote:
>> I just looked at the ad, that looks pretty interesting.  Curiosity is now
>> piqued.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I was just paging through Rainbow July '85 and saw an ad for "Colorburst"
>>> which looks like a six slot MPI with apparently a built in 1 meg expansion
>>> for $999.
>>>
>>> Was this ever a real thing?  Anyone know how the "memory expansion"
>>> functioned?  Anybody got one?

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