[Coco] How many colors in the GIMEx and Matchbox Coco Palettes

Ed Snider zippster278 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 11:45:56 EDT 2022


For the GIME-X it's 9-bit RGB for a palette 0f 512 colors.  Two separate DACs are present,
one for 15khz video (s-video, composite, bottom RGB port and rf modulator), and one running
at the VGA scan rate as well.

Not sure what the Matchbox CoCo uses.

- Ed


> On Jun 4, 2022, at 10:34 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
> 
> Pretty sure the palette of GIME-X is 4,096 colors which is 4 bits each for each of the primary RGB colors. 
> 
> -Dave Philipsen
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2022, at 11:37 AM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
>> 
>> To All
>> 
>> I understand that both the GIMEx and the Matchbox Coco have 256 Color Modes, but I have not seen anywhere the size of Palette of each and if those palettes are comparable color sets or quite different ?
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
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