[Coco] RadioShack remembers the CoCo (on Google+)

[Arthur Flexser]

So, according to this ad, fully one-third of the cost ($80 out of
$240) of the 16K Extended Basic CoCo 2 was seen by Radio Shack as
being in the Extended Basic chip??!  ($80 being the difference between
the costs of the Extended versus non-Extended models.)

Art

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
> Le 2013-12-05 à 14:12:00, Steve Bjork a écrit :
>
>> This one is Shooting Gallery running in PAL mode.
>
>
> Then how come it looks like it has more than 4 colours ? Looks more like a
> non-CoCo 8-colour mode to me. But fake screenshots were commonplace back
> then, for both the CoCo and Coleco... the difference was that CoCo ads
> cheated on the number of colours in hi-res modes, whereas Coleco ads cheated
> on the very existence of the advertised games. I mention just those two
> because they're the first two machines I ever used (when I was 5 or 6), but
> it probably happened for more kinds of computers.
>
> So, how was this screenshot made ?
>
> Are we looking at the same one ?
> https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YdQuXtwQ6l4/UqDbTgCuvlI/AAAAAAAAE7E/PyKmi-NNgos/w640-h635-no/d849d997-ae0c-4679-8be6-199395fb2777
>
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