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The Atari 8-bit computers can but only with 4 colors chosen from 128. The Amstrad CPC computer can with 16 out of 27 colors. The Amstrad CPC Plus models can wi
by timbit42 4y ago
The Atari 8-bit computers can but only with 4 colors chosen from 128.
The Amstrad CPC computer can with 16 out of 27 colors. The Amstrad CPC Plus models can with 16 out of 4096 colors.
I believe the MSX 2 and 2+ models can as well as they have 4096 or more colors.
Other possibilities are the Enterprise 64/128, Thomson TO8, Fujitsu FM 77 AV, and Sam Coupe. I mentioned these because they all have 128 or more colors but can only display a small subset of them so changing the palette should allow color cycling.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoThis was one of the best bits of palette chicanery on the CPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huHwm1Vx0NU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huHwm1Vx0NU The perspective scroll is achieved by having a colour for each 'column' of the text. The letters are then drawn by setting the palette at the start of each scanline. So for a letter T, you'd have a few scanlines with ink 1, 2, and 3 all set to green; then the remaining scanlines with ink 1 and 3 set to black, and ink 2 set to green. Later on it varies the technique by using different shapes, by changing the colour selection per line, and so on.