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

Wed Apr 3 15:48:56 EDT 2013

And, here it is, the response from Matt who posted those pictures
originally:

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Hi Blake,
Yep you are correct, when we found the Sanyo computer under the stairs in
the old office in 2008, it wouldn't boot so I Photoshopped the screenshots
for my post from whatever I could find on the Internet, most likely the
CoCo version you mentioned.  Thanks for the links to the Sanyo version,
checking those out now!
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Tribute art indeed, in a way, it seems. Mystery solved.

bp

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Blake Patterson <blakespot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have made contact with Matt from the now-defunct blog that seems to be
> the source of those images that appear to be re-works of the CoCo
> screenshots. I got a response back and sent him my quandry. We may be close
> to an answer here. I'll share as soon as I hear back!
>
>
> bp
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:04 AM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>wrote:
>
>> Heh... That's kinda funny... I had forgotten that the screenshots on Moby
>> Games were submitted by me years ago. Thanks for the unintentional
>> reminder.  :-)
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 2013-04-03, at 5:01 AM, Blake Patterson <blakespot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The CoCo shots on my site, it seems likely, I grabbed from the MobyGames
>> > page here:
>> >
>> > http://www.mobygames.com/game/trs-80-coco/time-bandit/screenshots
>> >
>> > I believe I have located Matt Gifford on Twitter, owner of the
>> now-defunct
>> > blog where I found the "Sanyo images," and have contacted him, though
>> I've
>> > heard nothing back as yet.
>> >
>> > It does seems likely that those images are some kind of nostalgic fan
>> > tribute to the CoCo version. I'd love to know who generated them along
>> with
>> > their story.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > bp
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jayeson Lee-Steere <
>> > cocolistemail at titaniumstudios.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> As a reference point, those original images contain almost 800 colors
>> >> between them, one has 391 unique colors. That combination of low Coco
>> >> resolution and very high color count indicates to me a nostalgic work.
>> >> Heck, someone may have just retouched the 4 color Coco shots as a
>> concept.
>> >>
>> >> Google's image based search finds no current versions of those colored
>> >> images, other than your copies Blake. Ironically, what is a apparently
>> a
>> >> composite of a colorized Coco version over a Sanyo MBC is now the cover
>> >> shot of Gerry Brophy's MBC Archive site:
>> >> http://www.eriscreations.com/sanyo/ .
>> >> Especially so, since he has screenshots of the very different, actual
>> MBC
>> >> version.
>> >>
>> >> Blake, where did your 4 color Coco images come from?
>> >>
>> >> Jayeson
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Jayeson Lee-Steere <
>> >> cocolistemail at titaniumstudios.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> 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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