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I feel like there’s way too much color for this to be ‘retro’. It seems you are limited to using 16 colors at once, but those colors are drawn from a 24-bit pal

I feel like there’s way too much color for this to be ‘retro’. It seems you are limited to using 16 colors at once, but those colors are drawn from a 24-bit palette unless I’m missing something.

Aeolun 2y ago
I think 16 colors is plenty retro enough. No need to make it artificially ugly.
Gormo 2y ago
The palette is very reminiscent of the C64 default palette to me, though not exactly the same. EGA also used 16 colors out of a possible 64 (although the the 16 colors from CGA were most often used), and the colors here also approximate a selection from the EGA palette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter#/media/File:EGA_Table.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter#/med...
whywhywhywhy 2y ago
No need for it to be ugly like CGA or EGA was ugly, plenty of retro computers had nice colors.
- extrabajs 2y ago
  Can you name one that had a 24-bit palette?
  - robxorb 2y ago
    Amiga AGA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Advanced_Graphics_Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Advanced_Graphics_Archit... As contemporary of 8-bit arch's it seems retro enough to count.