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The widely used VGA mode was the MCGA : 320x200x256. When those kind of display were widely available the CGA and EGA were obsolete and the PC could start to kick Amiga and Atari ST standards out of the place. VGA could also display a 640x480x16 video mode. All those from a 262,144colour total palette (6x6x6 bits). The VGA could also display all previous modes from CGA and EGA cards.
= Palettes =
(pictures courtesy from Wikipedia)
*CGA palette :
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|| http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/RGBI_4bits_palette_color_test_chart.png
|| http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/RGBI_4bits_palette.png
|}
This looks quite like a ZX Spectrum palette.
*EGA palette :
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|| http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/RGB_6bits_palette_color_test_chart.png
|| http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/RGB_6bits_palette.png
|}
This palette could have been great on an Amstrad CPC...
[[Category: Non CPC Computers| ]][[Category:Amstrad Products|*]]
