Colours washed out?

[stefandrissen]

Spectrum Computing recently switched from jsspeccy2 to 3 and I cannot get rid of the feeling that the colours on 3 look washed out. Sometimes it looks like ULA+ is enabled at other times it looks like a bread bin.

Just to prove that I am not mad, here are two screenshots from zxdemo.org:

http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/v2/

http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/

The palette in jsspeccy2 looks identical to jsspeccy3, so I am rather lost as to what is going on.

[gasman]

The current palette was added to jsspeccy2 in this commit gasman/jsspeccy2@270cbbe, at the suggestion of an external contributor over email. It looks like this never made it into a release of jsspeccy2, so the online demo is still using the old palette - as I recall, this old palette came from Fuse, and was simply based on arbitrarily picking 0xff for bright and 0xc0 for non-bright values.

The new palette was then copied across to jsspeccy3.

Everyone's experience of the Spectrum colour palette is subjective, and unless someone can provide some scientific insight into what the palette should be, I have no intention of changing it further.

[stefandrissen]

And then a flurry of scientific activity over on Wikipedia… coincidence?