[Coco] 3 Shades of Orange...

[Dittel, Torsten]

I have a question to those people having "real" CoCo 1/1B/2/2B RF or composite PAL/NTSC/SECAM (RGB Peritel) setup with some kind of color monitor:


Do you see a difference between the orange colors of CSS1 text mode background and SG4  characters 240-255 when you i.e. type POKE359,57:SCREEN0,1:CLS8?


If so, is the text mode background something you would call a "bright orange" while the graphics orange is rather a "medium orange"?


Did you ever see a difference regarding that aspect between a  standard VDG6847 and the "T1" lowercase version?


How does a "real" CoCo3 PAL/NTSC RF, RGB or composite PAL/NTSC show?


Would you describe the background of "inverted" text in the CSS1 text mode (SCREEN0,1 or POKE65314,8) as "dark orange", "brown" or "red"? Is there a difference between standard "red" color and that color?


I'm a little bit confused about what the emualtors are doing regarding that aspect.


Thanks for clarifying,

Torsten