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International Karate + - Commodore64 Xyphoes Fantasy - AmstradCPC Arkanoid II - AmstradCPC Pang - AmstradCPCPlus Wrath of the Demon - Commodore64 Night Hunter - AmstradCPC Barbarian - AmstradCPC Prince of Persia - SamCoupe Lemmings - SamCoupe |
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Turrican II - Amiga Shadow of the Beast - Amiga Jim Power - Amiga Agony - Amiga Turrican 2 - AtariST Project X - Amiga Super Frog - Amiga Flashback - Amiga Dark Seed - Amiga Flashback - Archimedes Warlocks - Archimedes Cannon Fodder - Amiga Turrican II - PC Universe - Amiga Hurrican - PC Tyrian - PC Super Stardust - AmigaAGA Pac-Mania - X68000 |
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Pac-Mania - MasterSystem The NewZealand Story - MasterSystem Pang - GX4000 Batman Return of The Joker - nes Battletoads & Double Dragon - nes |
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Jim Power - snes Donkey Kong Country - snes Aladdin - snes Comix Zone - Megadrive Alien Soldier - Megadrive Blazing Lazers - pcengine Raiden - pcengine Super Star Soldier - pcengine |
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G-Darius - psone Super Mario 64 - n64 ISS Pro Evolution - psone Perfect Dark - n64 Dino Crisis 2 - psone Resident Evil 2 - psone Metal Gear Solid - psone Oddworld: Abe - psone Klonoa: Door To Phantomile - psone Medievil - psone Nights Into Dreams - Saturn Flashback - CDi |
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 Back to the 80's and 90's each home computer and video-game console system had different graphical color modes. Each could handle different number of colors on screen using, sometimes, own unique techniques supported by its hardware. Most of the times, their display video-subsystems are unique but all of them are based on RGB palettes (even those that only supported composite-video signals...).So, here in Retroshowcase, we had this curiosity... We needed to know which system has a real-enough color palette! Below is a sample test of each system, displaying the same original true-color sample (a colorful parrot, that is) which is in 24bit True-color mode and has 22500 colors (out of 16,7 millions available). Each sample image only try to show how a certain system is able to handle to an image in terms of color without improvements or additional clever tricks of design like color-dithering (or i.e. copper-effect as it happened on Amiga systems). You will soon realize that each system's palette CANNOT reproduce the real true color of an RGB image. For example, our original (sample) image uses 22500 colors BUT the Nintendo Super NES (SNES) video-game console can reproduce the same image using only 5502 colors from its 32,768-color palette...... (*parrot images taken from relevant wikipedia article) | ||||
Amiga 500/500+ | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Amiga 1000 | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Amiga 2000 | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Amiga 600 | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Amiga 4000 | ||||
| 14715 out of it's 16,7M-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (14715 colors resolved) |  24-bit RGB 16.7 million-color palette | |||
Amiga 1200 | ||||
| 14715 out of it's 16,7M-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (14715 colors resolved) |  24-bit RGB 16.8 million-color palette | |||
Atari ST | ||||
| 228 out of it's 512-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (228 colors resolved) |  9-bit RGB 512-color palette | |||
Atari STF / STFM | ||||
| 228 out of it's 512-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (228 colors resolved) |  9-bit RGB 512-colors palette | |||
Atari STE | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Atari Falcon 030 | ||||
| 14715 out of it's 262k-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample! | ||||
 (14715 colors resolved) |  18bit RGB 262,144-colors palette | |||
Atari Mega ST | ||||
| 228 out of it's 512-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample! | ||||
 (228 colors resolved) |  9-bit RGB 512-colors palette | |||
Amiga 3000 | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colours palette | |||
Atari TT 030 | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample! | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128 | ||||
| 21 out of it's 27-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (21 colors resolved) |  RGB 27-colors palette | |||
Commodore 64/128/Plus4 | ||||
| 96 out of it's 121-colors palette (Plus/4) matches the 22500-color sample! | ||||
 (16 colors resolved) |  VIC20: 16-colors YPbPr palette | |||
 (96 colors resolved) |  C-16,Plus/4: 121-colors YPbPr palette | |||
 (16 colors resolved) |  C64/128: 16-colors YPbPr palette | |||
ZX Spectrum | ||||
| 11 out of it's 15-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (11 colors resolved) |  3bit RGBi 15-colors palette | |||
MSX | ||||
| 15 out of it's 15-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (15 colors resolved) |  15-color YPbPr-encoded palette | |||
Amstrad CPC+ | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Nintendo NES | ||||
| 41 out of it's 57-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (41 colors resolved) |  6bit YPbPr 57-color palette | |||
Super Nintendo (SNES) | ||||
| 5502 out of it's 32,768-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (5502 colors resolved) |  15bit RGB 32,768-color palette | |||
Megadrive (EU) / Genesis (Jap) | ||||
| 61 out of it's 512-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (61 colors resolved) |  9-bit RGB 512-color palette | |||
Sam Coupe | ||||
| ONLY 11 out of 128-color palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (11 colors resolved) |  RGB 128-colours palette | |||
PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 / TurboDuo | ||||
| 214 out of it's 512-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (214 colors resolved) |  9-bit RGB 512-color palette | |||
Sega Master System | ||||
| 32 out of it's 64-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample! | ||||
 (32 colors resolved) |  6bit RGB 64-color palette | |||
Atari Mega STE | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colours palette | |||
Game Gear | ||||
| 32 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (32 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colours palette | |||
Archimedes A3000/4000/5000 | ||||
| 1232 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colors palette | |||
Apple IIGS | ||||
| 32 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colours palette | |||
PC (ms-dos based) | ||||
 (11 colors resolved) |  CGA: 16-color palette | |||
 (16 colors resolved) |  EGA: 64-color palette | |||
 (255 colors resolved) |  VGA: 256-color palette | |||
GX4000 | ||||
| 32 out of it's 4096-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (1232 colors resolved) |  12bit RGB 4096-colours palette | |||
Atari XL/XE | ||||
| 114 out of it's 128/256-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (114 colors resolved) |  256-color palette with 16 on-screen | |||
GameBoy Advance | ||||
| 3662 out of it's 32,768-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (3669 colors resolved) |  15bit RGB 32,768-color palette | |||
Amiga CD32 | ||||
| 14715 out of it's 16,7M-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (14715 colors resolved) |  24-bit RGB 16.7 million-color palette | |||
BBC Micro / Acorn Electron | ||||
| 8 out of it's 8-colors palette matches the 22500-color sample | ||||
 (8 colors resolved) |  RGB 8-colors palette | |||
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