Re: 256 Colors

[Lee Cremeans <lee@lcremeans.homeip.net>]

Exegete wrote:

> Lee Cremeans wrote:
>
> > Exegete wrote:
> >
> > > Bryan Parkoff wrote:
> > >
> > > >     Why Apple Corp, Inc decide to limit 16 out of 256 colors each line?
> > > > Super NES can handle 256 colors each line.  Both of them use 65816 
> > > > CPU.  Is
> > > > it because Apple Team are afraid that 256 colors might interfere I/O
> > > > softswitches in E1/C000?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > You are using the present tense for a machine designed long before 
> > > the Super NES, a machine that hasn't been sold since 1992.
> >
> >
> >
> > Are you sure you're not thinking of the original 8-bit NES? 
>
>
> NO, I'm thinking of the IIgs. Released in 1986, and discontinued in 1992.

Oops, sorry about that then.

-lee