[Coco] The Touchstone - Not working on CoCo3

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Are you using a RGB monitor ? Did you run RGB command before loading it ?

RGB

I know the 1986 gime chip has some nasty flickering colors. Just try this:

WIDTH80
CLS4

and you screen goes bezerk...


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> On 19/10/2014 4:12 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
>
>> I've been compiling all the CoCo1/2 specific games that I rank highly
>> into single DSK images for easy access.
>>
>> One game which I use to play a lot in the 80's and that I highly regard
>> as an excellently produced CoCo 1/2 game utilizing the 4 color PMODE3
>> screenmode is "The Touchstone".
>>
>> This was sold through Tom Mix and was a clone of arcade Tutankham.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work correctly on my CoCo3. It runs
>> fine except for a flickering of the screen.
>>
>> Has anyone else found this problem or is it just my CoCo3?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
> Correction..
>
> It doesn't use the PMODE3 screenmode, it used the PMODE3 colorset (green
> border) and use a screenmode which is like PMODE3 but of a lower vertical
> resolution.
>
> Anyone wishing to try it on their CoCo3 to see if you get the flickering
> problem, you can find the game here...
>
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Games/Touchstone,%20The%
> 20(Tom%20Mix%20Software).zip
>
> Nick
>
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