[Coco] Will the *real* artifact colors please stand up?

[William Astle]

KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/5/04 3:24:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KnudsenMJ at aol.com 
> writes:
> 
> 
>>ISTR that the Coco3 has a more thorough power-on reset in its GIME, hence 
>> will always come up the same color.  No random number generator, but some 
>>games 
>> were written so that if you held the ESC key while switching on, the 
>>opposite 
>> clock phase would be re-initialized in the GIME to reverse the colors.
>> Maybe that ESC trick was coded into the Super-Extended BASIC ROM, so that 
> 
> it 
> 
>> would work on old Coco 1/2 games?  Been a long while.  --Mike K.
> 
> 
> Yep, been so long is right -- it is indeed the F1 key, RESET on the right 
> rear and not POWER ON.  --Mike K.
> 

It should also work on power on. At least my reading of the ROM 
indicates the check is run in both cases.