[Coco] Hidden 256-color mode

[Mark Marlette]

Nick,

My last contact was probably a year ago or so. IIRC, he was in Colorado.
We talked about the GIME and info he might have retained. None...... :(

Mark



 Quoting Nickolas Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au>:

> Mark Marlett wrote:
> I have had several Emails with Dale. He contacted us through the
> Cloud-9
> web site. He has no info on the GIME and his contact, which he
> wouldn't
> name said that he had no info either. Here is Dale's Email at my last
> contact.
> "Dale Chatham" <dale.chatham at 4dv.net
> <http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>>
>
>
> Nick Replies:
> Thanks Mark, every bit helps. I can send him an e-mail but before I
> do,
> when did you last "speak" to him? Did he see the copy of the official
> Tandy R&D document on my web site? If he was Director of Hardware
> Engineering, I would assume that he would have seen this document.
> Understandably, it was a long time and he may have forgotten. I guess
> he
> would have been involved with the Tandy 1000 range so it is possible
> that there are too many details for him to remember from so far back.
>
> When I first came into contact with my "informant" from Tandy who
> told
> me about the 256 color mode, I was at first cautious about what he
> said.
> What had got me interested is the fact that John Kowalski had noted
> the
> possibility of such a mode by analyzing the GIME block diagram in the
> Tandy service manual BEFORE we even came into contact with this
> "informant".
>
> What capped it off was when Mark Hawkins (ex Microware) gave me a
> copy
> of the Tandy R&D document, an official document that clearly shows
> that
> the mode was in the original design.
>
> The big question is whether the mode was completely removed from
> production GIME's or merely "hidden" as my informant claims. This
> secret
> mode has really gotten my interest in the past few years and has
> almost
> become a personal quest to find it.  :)
>
> Nickolas Marentes
>
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