alt Hacker NewsI never understood the choice of default CGA palette colors. amber and green wasn't much nicer to me, and it was even more rare in games.
though, "The Eternal Castle Remastered" (2019) used the same palette, and it was pretty good.
I never understood the choice of default CGA palette colors. amber and green wasn't much nicer to me, and it was even more rare in games.
though, "The Eternal Castle Remastered" (2019) used the same palette, and it was pretty good.
The CGA palettes were designed with three main objectives: good contrast on composite and black and white displays, high contrast productivity UX, and simple ttl circuitry. There was a limit of 16 colours, but if you wanted to step up resolution you had to compromise by selecting fewer colors. A major compromise choice was resolution vs colours. High resolution cost you your magenta and yellow. Have a google for the mode 4 and mode 5 pallets and mathematically why they are the way they are, it’s super interesting if you’re in to retro tech.
In the later era, as EGA and VGA gained, I think CGA became a bolt on by some game devs, to accommodate that dwindling audience, so the problem was compounded by it being very second class citizen.