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Ah, GEM. I always got stuck at why three colours? You're using 2 bits depth, why not give people the fourth colour!
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Ah, GEM. I always got stuck at why three colours? You're using 2 bits depth, why not give people the fourth colour!
- bluedino 8y agoHaving that fourth color (in CGA that would be magenta) makes things look terrible. It was an artistic decision to have black, white, and a single color.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoThat makes no sense - the fourth colour could have been any in the ST palette. Choose appropriately for artistic reasons. Pick either a highlight colour (orange as on the Amiga and whatever early Unix desktop I once used), or a complementary colour (maybe grey?). CGA was awful for many reasons, one of which was that all colours were fixed.