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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Heh... That's kinda funny... I had forgotten that the screenshots on Moby Games were submitted by me years ago. Thanks for the unintentional reminder.  :-)

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On 2013-04-03, at 5:01 AM, Blake Patterson <blakespot at gmail.com> wrote:

> The CoCo shots on my site, it seems likely, I grabbed from the MobyGames
> page here:
> 
> http://www.mobygames.com/game/trs-80-coco/time-bandit/screenshots
> 
> I believe I have located Matt Gifford on Twitter, owner of the now-defunct
> blog where I found the "Sanyo images," and have contacted him, though I've
> heard nothing back as yet.
> 
> It does seems likely that those images are some kind of nostalgic fan
> tribute to the CoCo version. I'd love to know who generated them along with
> their story.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> bp
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jayeson Lee-Steere <
> cocolistemail at titaniumstudios.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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