[Coco] Detecting CoCo 1 versus CoCo 2

[Allen Huffman]

> On Oct 17, 2024, at 6:05 PM, Paul F via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a utility (CoCoID) which 'attempts' to detect the difference between
> CoCo 1/2, using both Darren's method as well as CRC checks on the CB and
> ECB ROM versions. It's a heuristic approach (best guess), but it's pretty
> good at detecting a CoCo that is NOT a CoCo-2. That is, if it passes the
> ROM checks to detect earlier/original CoCo 1 ROMs, it's pretty certain that
> it is a CoCo-1 - while some people maybe upgrade their CoCo-1 to newer
> ROMs, it's probably an extremely rare case for someone to downgrade their
> CoCo-2 to use CoCo-1 ROMs.

Did any model of CoCo 2 use the same ROMs from the CoCo 1s? The white CoCo 1 was still just “Color Computer”, wasn’t it?


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