Basically, the Amstrad CPC Video work like a CGA video card from a PC. But extra features like a 16 colours mode exist.
==Colours attributes==
The Amstrad CPC is perhaps the only cheap personnal computer of his generation with absolutly no shuch thing as colour attributes.
Speccy was awfull for this, and even better computers had modes with such this.
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 from 4096 colours palette)
C64 and MSX also had Colours 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 see any faulty colour clashes... despite the numerous speccy ports, because it cannot unless voluntarily programmed.... This saved many speccy ports indeed.
Is this better ?
Well colours attribute system allow a good resolution with more than 4 colours displayed on screen with few efforts.
So this would be interesting to display...colourfull texts.
Yet fine graphics with a really colourfull feeling become harder to get, so are nice metallic or graphical effect letter fonts with 4 colors...
But a clever choice in said colours could also give good results too in Pastel shades.
Yet Amstrad CPC had clearly a better paletter palette (in number) than Speccy and , C64, but it or almost all post-1985 8 bit computers. It was a bit of a shame that some of its colours were almost identical...
Systems with a 12-bit RGB palette use 4 bits (16 values) for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a 16<sup>3</sup> = 4096 colours palette.
From the 8 bit era, only the latter MSX specs had a greater palette (in number).
==Mode 0 graphics==