On 7/12/05, Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> To put it in computer terms, your PC when set to 24-bit color, has
> 16.7 million colors available in its palet. With 16-bit color, it
> has 64k (65536) colors available. The 2600, with its 7-bit palet,
> has only 128 colors available.
>
> The TV is capable of producing millions of colors, but the 2600 can
> only tell it to produce a subset of 128.
>
Oh, for some reason when he Thomas started talking about Wikipedia, I
thought he was talking about some fundamental limitation of NTSC, not
of what the 2600 can output.
Is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 the page in question?
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