DOS Colorset

[Pentium]

This actually looks quite interesting, though the title bugs me a little. DOS programs could, by using VESA modes, display screen resolutions up to 1600*1200@32-bit color. A better name would be "CGA colorset", since those are the colors used in the full CGA palette.

exact 16 colours DOS uses


still a nice colourset

Wrong. That is a small part of pre-Vista MS-Paint's palette.

[Ad Bot]

[Plastiware]

This actually looks quite interesting, though the title bugs me a little. DOS programs could, by using VESA modes, display screen resolutions up to 1600*1200@32-bit color. A better name would be "CGA colorset", since those are the colors used in the full CGA palette.

Yes, yes, but back in the day, all DOS programs had the same 16-color palette.  That, and I think more people would see "DOS colorset" and understand what it means than "CGA colorset".

[Altiris]

16 color or 16bit?

[pecon98]

16 color or 16bit?

16 color.

So it's a 4-bit colorset.