> That reminds me (I could be wrong, red pencil where
> necessary): I seem to recall, back when the NES was
> the big kid on the block, a company called "Color
> Dreams" that claimed to have a special chip that made
> the NES pump out more on-screen colors at once than
> the hardware could alone. How, exactly, is this
> possible (if you don't know, you don't have to
> answer), and if possible, did anyone try it with the
> 2600?
I believe that what this actually did was shrink the
region in which there could be N (16?) distinct colors
from 32*32 pixels to something smaller. No, I don't
know how that's possible either.
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