[Coco] Time Bandit - CoCo 3 version?? Or...what version is this?

[Jayeson Lee-Steere]

Where did you get the Coco and unknown platform pics?

The 4-color Coco pics look to be from an accurate Coco/Coco emulator
capture. Note that these would have originally been 2 color and converted
to 4 color by an algorithm that mimics NTSC artifacting. The algorithm used
here is not particularly accurate - the width of a lot of pixels is off and
it is missing some mixed colors - there should be some green tints in there
at least.

The unknown shots look to me like someone's project, and probably from the
same source as the 4 color pics. Both 4 and high-color versions have the
same outlines. The high-color versions have a lot of colors in them - more
than a Coco 3 can display. It appears that each Coco sprite image has been
assigned new colors for red and blue, and then procedurally "lit" from the
top left. One might do this if they had fond memories of the game but found
the primitive graphics difficult to deal with now (I fall into that
category but this is not my work).

As a side note, it is generally good form when posting someone else's
material to attribute the source, and, it helps avoid situations like this
where important information is lost.

Cheers,

Jayeson



On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Blake Patterson <blakespot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a big fan of Time Bandit from MichTron / MicroDeal. I enjoy it
> primarily on the Atari ST. I do have the CoCo I / II version, though.
>
> I made this post some years ago:
>
> http://www.bytecellar.com/2004/10/26/time_bandit/
>
> Look down at the pics. The CoCo I / II version is right there, labelled as
> such. But the version I labelled the Sanyo MBC-550 version is NOT the Sanyo
> version, I've just discovered. I just came across screens of that version
> and it is definitely not the one shown in my post.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/8613890082/in/set-72157633146005641/
>
> So...I'm trying to determine what version is pictured in my post,
> mislabelled as the Sanyo version. The shape of the graphics looks nearly
> identical to the CoCo I / II version, but with much better color.
>
> Was there a CoCo 3 version in the works? I don't think it was ever
> released, if so. Any ideas here?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> bp
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