Why yellow?
Why yellow?
Why are so many spectrum games so... yellow?
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Re: Why yellow?
Cos its The Spectrum. If you want earthworm brown or vaguely light purple, go and play on a C64.
Re: Why yellow?
One of the mysteries of the universe, I guess.
I'm now waiting for someone to start up a project to count how many games in the archive are PAPER 6.
I'm now waiting for someone to start up a project to count how many games in the archive are PAPER 6.
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Re: Why yellow?
Likely because there's no pink or brown, so it's often used for skin tone.
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Re: Why yellow?
Yello, 'cus it's the colour of the Sun and it brightens your day...
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Re: Why yellow?
I think it's a nicer contrast than the harsh yin-yang of black/white glaring at you. It looks a lot crisper in yellow/black.
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Re: Why yellow?
Yeah, I think it's because it offers good contrast if the secondary colour is black, without feeling entirely colourless in the way a pure black/white version often does.
Re: Why yellow?
I was just about to say the same - high contrast with black but less boring than white.
But also showing C64 users, that our games can look like p!ss and still be better than their offerings
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Re: Why yellow?
ZX Spectrum's palette is made of the primary colours of both systems, additive (Red, Green, Blue and White) and subtractive (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black).
Besides, once I read on this forum about this table:
1 Blue + 2 Red = 3 Magenta
1 Blue + 4 Green = 5 Cyan
2 Red + 4 Green = 6 Yellow
1 Blue + 2 Red + 4 Green = 7 White
Besides, once I read on this forum about this table:
1 Blue + 2 Red = 3 Magenta
1 Blue + 4 Green = 5 Cyan
2 Red + 4 Green = 6 Yellow
1 Blue + 2 Red + 4 Green = 7 White
Re: Why yellow?
Best answer. I did like that machine in a way however the brownish and purple shades did not inspire.bluespikey wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:51 pm Cos its The Spectrum. If you want earthworm brown or vaguely light purple, go and play on a C64.
Talking of yellow, the BBC has a bright enough one... (If it had it, I'd say "BRIGHT 2")
Spoiler
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Re: Why yellow?
It's all additive colour. Subtractive colour is for colour absorbing systems, like ink on paper.
For those watching in black and white...
Spoiler
Red + Green = Yellow
Red + Blue = Magenta
Green + Blue = Cyan.
Red + Green + Blue = White.
Red + Blue = Magenta
Green + Blue = Cyan.
Red + Green + Blue = White.
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Re: Why yellow?
The ZX Spectrum. Giving you both of the 4-colour palettes of a CGA-equipped PC from 1982 onwards.
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Re: Why yellow?
On the contrary, I have the feeling most games have black background.
Re: Why yellow?
Oddly the archive for "yellow" brings up The Yellow Umbrella Shop. I was hoping it was the most niche bit of software for the most niche shop ever, but it looks like it was a charity shop that stocked more than just yellow umbrellas
Re: Why yellow?
I like bright colours in my life. Yellow really does help.
Also, because it's a nice song.
Also, because it's a nice song.
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Re: Why yellow?
All the very best ZX Spectrum games were made in ye...
...erm... well... uh... nearly all. Well, some of them.
...erm... well... uh... nearly all. Well, some of them.
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Re: Why yellow?
Why didn't they use dithered red and white pixels for skin tone?
Re: Why yellow?
Totally agree. Maybe a thread of "Your favourite Yellow Game?"
Edit: most of them started in yellow and then in the next levels changed to "all cyan", "all green", and so, but some of us only played the first levels, I assume.
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Re: Why yellow?
Knowing the Speccy users at school who only ever indulged in football, football, football (yawn), I wonder if their CRTs were doing overtime with all the PAPER 4?
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Re: Why yellow?
Yellow is a colour with a high Luminance (close to white) and low Chroma difference so it encodes well in PAL. Cyan is also good in this regard.
Other colors create more artifacts and lower resolution, as most of the information is on Chroma (colour difference) signals (red and blue being worse).
An image from the Wikipedia PAL article illustrates this:
In short, yellow simply looks better on RF or composite
Other colors create more artifacts and lower resolution, as most of the information is on Chroma (colour difference) signals (red and blue being worse).
An image from the Wikipedia PAL article illustrates this:
In short, yellow simply looks better on RF or composite
Re: Why yellow?
Better still, without the washed-out pastel-shading caused by using #55 as the "low" level for the colours instead of #00.PeteProdge wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:44 pm The ZX Spectrum. Giving you both of the 4-colour palettes of a CGA-equipped PC from 1982 onwards.
You want Spectrum colours on a 1980s PC - you need EGA!
Strangely enough, CGA and EGA palettes are what I've spent far too much time fannying about with on the Next, which has 512 colours to choose from.
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Re: Why yellow?
Ah yes, I was given some old Spectrum kit in the mid-'90s by my dad's friend, and this was on one of the tapes. The author's name is fairly uncommon and I managed to track him down online and get permission to put it on WoS!R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:51 am
Oddly the archive for "yellow" brings up The Yellow Umbrella Shop. I was hoping it was the most niche bit of software for the most niche shop ever, but it looks like it was a charity shop that stocked more than just yellow umbrellas