[Coco] I have a TV hooked up!

Fedor Steeman petrander at gmail.com
Tue May 7 03:18:04 EDT 2013


In the Rainbow there once was a hack for making any CoCo2 game become
"artifacted" on a CM-8 monitor. It didn't always work, though...

Anyways, I grew up with a PAL system so I never had those neat colour
artifacts. :-(

/Fedor



On 7 May 2013 06:23, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 03:02:07AM +0000, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > I kinda thought hooking up a TV was one of the first things,
>
> Well, I've been RGB only since 1997.  I had a TV but it was
> in a different room...
>
> > especially in these latter days when the monitors compatible with
> > the other Coco 3 outputs are hen's teeth,
>
> Heh my CM-8 is still going strong.
>
> IIRC the last time I had a TV hooked up to my CoCo I played a
> lot of Zaxxon and finally beat it.  Good times!
>
> And now I can play those games again, and get color instead of ugly
> patterns!  I even remembered how to get the CoCo3 to come up in the
> alternate color set.
>
> Willard
> --
> Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
> Socorro, New Mexico, USA
> I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
>   -- R.E. Howard
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>



More information about the Coco mailing list