> when you consider it only had 256 colors Per-frame palettes allow you to hack this a bit if you don't mind a few fractions of a second draw time for a static

> when you consider it only had 256 colors Per-frame palettes allow you to hack this a bit if you don't mind a few fractions of a second draw time for a static image¹² or only parts of the frame need to update each time for an animation. Edit: some examples... A good illustration of the technique can be seen in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FullColour.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FullColour.gif and https://gif.ski/ https://gif.ski/ is a practically pointless but brilliant tool for making high quality gif videos. [1] or don't mind some dithering on the initial draw with the more colours added in subsequent “frames”. [2] though for a static image, just use PNG