[Coco] coco colors

[Robert Hermanek]

Someone brought up coco3 colors lately, and it got me thinking about a 
few inconsistencies I've seen.  First, my understanding of the RGB and 
CMP commands are simply to load different color values into the 16 
palette registers, meaning I assume, that a particular color code X 
(between 0 and 63) will render a different color if viewed on a CMP vs. 
RGB monitor... but then I got to thinking of 1) what is a reference of 
all the colors, and 2) do we define/name colors based on RGB or CMP 
monitors?

I loaded up the Kiel emulator, wrote a quick program to show me all of 
the colors (16 at a time), did screenshots, combined all the colors in 
photoshop, numbered them, and came up with the graphic that is attached 
to this message.  So... are the emulator colors correct?  Are they RGB 
monitor colors as I expected them to be?  The reason I ask is that if I 
take a coco3 connected to vga monitor via Roy Justus's converter, I do 
not get the exact same colors, and things get pretty confusing after a 
while.

Anyway, that's the long story.  Short story is -- I made this color 
chart, I'm curious if it matches other people's coco3's or not in any way...

-RobertH
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