Secret Colours of the Commodore 64

Re:Secret Colours of the Commodore 64 by mcapodici on Sunday March 12, 2023 @07:54AM (#35119070)

The BBC computers unfortunately had only 8 colours. With 16 colour choices, 8 of them were slow “flashing” versions of the first 8.

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Re:Secret Colours of the Commodore 64 by aardvark179 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @10:02AM (#35120122)

They could be very fast flashing versions with an OS call, so on an average TV they blurred nicely into new colours. You could also change video mode part way down the screen if you were careful, or more commonly switch the palette either for effects or to not show the part of the screen memory that you were using for other purposes.

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Re:Secret Colours of the Commodore 64 by forinti on Sunday March 12, 2023 @10:04AM (#35120153)

There's a modern upgrade that lets you get 16 colours from a palette of 4096.

https://github.com/bitshifters/bbc-nula

It's hard to believe those images come from a BBC Micro.

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