Posted By
MMS
on 2009-11-25
15:43:32
 |  Re: Just to chat: what is, in your opinion, the greater lack of Plus4? (if any...)
Well, multicolor gfx mode:
-In C64 you could have 3 independent color + background color per character.
In +4 you have only 2 independent color, as they wanted to keep the 2K colormap size (colors+brightenesses), and third color did not fit.
-Instead of limit the plus/4 to 2 variable + 2 fix background colors, they could have a mode with 4 KB colormap, and 4 independent colors per character, even backgound color could be set separately. 12KB. May call supermulti  Would not work with non-extended C16, I know.
Then +4 gfx would be even more colorful (and easy to produce), than now.
(and, next to that, all C64 gfx converted to +4 would look perfect, not like now...)
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