i'm not a big fan of hand-tuned RGB palettes for emulators - for the reasons already mentioned. another important reason is that the CBM machines do not produce RGB colors at all, they output either YUV (PAL) or YIQ (NTSC) and the color decoding process in the monitor plays an important role on what colors you actually see (and if you dont have a calibrated high quality video monitor, such as a sony-pvm, comparing emulator output to it is a bit pointless). all of that makes it pretty much impossible to create "the correct palette". thats why the while CRT emulation stuff in VICE was introduced, it actually allows to generate proper colors on the fly - the only problem is that noone came up with exact measurements for the VIC-1 color angles yet.
that said, imho the estimated defaults in
current VICE are not *that* far off anyway:
![vic1.png](./download/file.php?id=247&sid=c10983e69a5b9ac983196ae75a8f1669)
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(PAL defaults with CRT emulation)
![vic2.png](./download/file.php?id=248&sid=c10983e69a5b9ac983196ae75a8f1669)
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(the above palette without CRT emulation)
(the underlayed screenshot comes from mike's
colour-tester post, i am just hoping it came from a real VIC)
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