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From: ISSLTC@NUSVM.BITNET (Lim Thye Chean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: GS PALETTES
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Date: 5 Jun 91 01:55:47 GMT
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I think I starting to like this group. Not only there are many famous
people like Andy, Matt, Dave on the net, I always receive a lot of
different answers on my questions. Some answers are wrong, but most are
informative.

I have another questions that puzzle me for years, and I really hope
somebody in Apple can answer me. Why the Apple IIGS colour palettes
have such a strange colour assignmet? The 320-mode colours assignment
is almost completely different from 640-mode, this made converting
pictures difficult, and also hard to draw a picture, or a background
that is suitable for both modes. In one mode, colour is red, but on
the other mode, the same colour means blue.

Why Apple give such strange arrangement on the 320-mode? It is not
even the same as the 16 colours on double hires! (Correct me if I am
wrong) The same cannot be said for 640-mode because of the dithered
restrictions. But I hope Apple will give some thought next time if
they make another standard again.

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