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

[Jayeson Lee-Steere]

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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