[Color Computer] Re: [Coco] Hidden 256-color mode

[James Diffendaffer]

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "James Diffendaffer"
<jdiffendaffer at y...> wrote:
> I thought enabling the 256 color mode was difficult because they had
> run out of physical pins on the chip rather than to hide the mode from
> Tandy.  Not releasing the info was because of Tandy for sure.

I got to thinking about this. 
Running out of pins on the GIME doesn't make sense.  However, if they
were tacking the mode onto the prototype, they very well could have
run out of pins somewhere and running a line from somewhere indicating
a certain state is certainly feasable to activate it.




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