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

Camillus Blockx camillus.b.58 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 12:24:01 EDT 2022


Hi, Ed

What's the status on the gime-x.


cb

Op za 4 jun. 2022 om 17:46 schreef Ed Snider via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
>:

> 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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