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/* Colour attributes */
==Colour attributes==
The Amstrad CPC is perhaps the only cheap personal computer of this generation with absolutely no such thing as (character ) colour attributes.
Speccy was awful for this, and even better computers had modes with it.
Such effect can almost be seen in the game [[Striker in the Crypts of Trogan]] when monsters cross the "rasterzones"...
Later [[Thomson ]] 8 bit computers (MO6 and TO8) used to have the same Video Modes and Palette as the Amstrad Plus and an additional Mode (320x200 and 16 colors with attribute limitation of 4096 colours palette)
[[C64 ]] and [[MSX ]] also had Colour attributes, yet also some modes without or with less limitations than Speccy, and later models (C128, MSX2+ and 3) were also designed with even better extra non-attributed modes.
As a result, an Amstrad never sees any faulty colour clashes... despite the numerous speccy ports, because it cannot unless voluntarily programmed.... This saved many speccy ports indeed.
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