Apple II colors (was: Apple IIe power...)

[Pim Blokland <nipp@plane.nl>]

Jonathan Schattke wrote:
> 
> Well, technically, Hi-res can display all 16 colors of lo-res.

I'd like to see you do that! My record is 12, and I haven't been able
to produce more, unless it was with dithering (i.e. displaying
different colors on odd and even lines).

> Half-pixels could be made on byte boundaries by changing the hi bit of the
> adjacent bytes, allowing the display of
> Dk Green
> Dk Purple
> Brown
> Dk Blue

This for instance, is not possible: there are only two positions in
which you can put a half pixel (odd and even), so that you cannot get
dark green and dark red (purple). Only brouwn and dark blue are possible.
Unless you know something I don't. Show me!

> This only leaves grey off of the 15 lo-res colors.

And there are two greys, which leaves us with only 12 possible colors.

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