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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS PALETTE
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.111105.3751@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 11:11:05 GMT
References: <9106060123.AA23120@apple.com>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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ISSLTC@NUSVM.BITNET (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

>Somebody mentioned in the net that he sees the 320 mode colour palette
>as logical. I don't think so. Why don't Apple simply arrange the
>the palette in such a way that the red in 320 mode corresponse to the
>red in 640 mode, blue to blue, green to green, etc? Even 640 mode has
>two grey colours that can corresponseto two grey colours in the 320
>mode!

This is because the 320 mode palette was assigned so the color numbers would
correspond to the color numbers used by the //e video generator (Lo-res and
Double-Hires, and the text/background/border colors in the VGC).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu