CGA in 1024 Colors - a New Mode: the Illustrated Guide
https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/ [int10h.org]
2019-03-12 02:26
One of our “hey, this hardware shouldn’t be doing that!“-moments was extending the CGA’s color palette by a cool order of magnitude or two. How’d we pull that off? - reenigne has already posted an excellent technical article answering that very question. To complement his writeup, I’ll take a bit of a different approach – here’s my ‘pictorial’ take on how we arrived at this:
The colors between the colors.
Also: http://www.reenigne.org/blog/1k-colours-on-cga-how-its-done/
source: L