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by drudru11 3382 days ago
This is cool, but I've never understood why people like the C64 palette. It looked washed out to me.

I guess people grow to like the look of the machines they have fond memories of. (Apple II, Coco, Sinclair)

The Amiga was the first machine to really impress me with its pallete.
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rusk 3382 days ago
The Amiga was really the first home computer to have a truly impressive palette. It got the jump on the PC mainstream by a good few years. I don't think it was until sVGA happened that the PCs caught up again ...
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brusch64 3382 days ago
Well the Amiga had 4096 colours. The colour palette was of course more flexibel.

But if you compare the C64 palette with other 8 bit computers of the time, it looks better for me. And as he explains in his article, it is easier to generate more realistic looking pictures with it than with a more vibrant colour palette.

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