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by brusch64 3381 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.