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Re: My Apple IIGS is back

limtc wrote:
> Apple II, yes. Apple IIGS works best on RGB. I am just surprise that
> even composite works so well for 320 mode.

The best-looking and most "natural" graphics don't have very
fine-grained contrasting color changes (the human eye doesn't
see them very well), so composite color is a pretty good match
to what we like to see.

Even in RGB, the IIgs frequently dithers colors, with the intent
that the human eye will average them out.

> On 4锟斤拷23锟斤拷, 锟斤拷锟斤拷6时58锟斤拷, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>But the Apple II was designed around composite color, and it makes for
>>very nice color graphics, even with a restricted palette.

-michael

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