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General Discussion / Re: The Non-Exhaustive Restriction Guide
« on: August 12, 2010, 08:28:12 pm »
Kleincomputer KC85
The KC85 was a computer produced in the 1980s in the GDR. The computers made use of a palette of 16 foreground colours (actually only 14) and 8 background colours and their screen resolution was 320x256.
Foreground palette (white and black are duplicated):

Background palette:

On the KC85/2, the screen was divided into 4x8 pixel rectangles. Each rectangle could contain 1 background colour and 1 foreground colour.

The later model KC85/4 had the rectangle size reduced to 1x8, but still the same limitations.

A hires mode was available for the KC85/4 as well: it had the same resolution like the standard graphics mode, but four colours of a fixed palette could be freely used without further restrictions.
Hires palette:

Sources (in German only):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC85
http://www.robotrontechnik.de/html/forum/thwb/showtopic.php?threadid=1430
The KC85 was a computer produced in the 1980s in the GDR. The computers made use of a palette of 16 foreground colours (actually only 14) and 8 background colours and their screen resolution was 320x256.
Foreground palette (white and black are duplicated):

Background palette:

On the KC85/2, the screen was divided into 4x8 pixel rectangles. Each rectangle could contain 1 background colour and 1 foreground colour.

The later model KC85/4 had the rectangle size reduced to 1x8, but still the same limitations.

A hires mode was available for the KC85/4 as well: it had the same resolution like the standard graphics mode, but four colours of a fixed palette could be freely used without further restrictions.
Hires palette:

Sources (in German only):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC85
http://www.robotrontechnik.de/html/forum/thwb/showtopic.php?threadid=1430