Help improving the VIC20 palette in vice!

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:03 pm

Taking a totally arbitrary combination of tokra's VIC-20 (PAL 6561-101, with S-Video mod), a 1084 monitor (at 'usable' settings of brightness, contrast, and saturation), my Fuji S5800 - and the beholder's own display hardware on the PC used to view this post, I photographed all 16 colours put on screen by 'Colour Test' (download).

Averaging the RGB values of the snippets resulted in the mushy image to the left, and then I calibrated against 'black' and 'white', maximising contrast and saturation (some colours, notably blue and purple slightly went over 255 in the blue component, and thus were clipped), resulting in the image to the right:

And here's 'mike.vpl' for download.

Greetings,

Michael

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:43 pm

Tried loading it in Vice 2.3, didn't recognise it as a palette file. Odd... if I edit the vice.ini file, then it boots up.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:59 pm

VICE 2.3 doesn't even accept its own 'default.vpl' ...huh?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:36 pm

Yeah, I discovered that too during my experiments to get the palette file altered. Something very peculiar...