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/* CGA */
[[Image:Amstrad pc1512-2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The '''Amstrad PC1512''' - The first PC by Amstrad]]
[[File:Amstrad-pc1512-ad.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Amstrad PC1512 advertisement]]
[[Image:Amstrad PC20.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The '''Amstrad PC20''' - An attempt to market the PC as a home computer]]
= The video displays =
=== CGA ===
The Amstrad CPC can quite be considered a custom and more versatile CGA.
=== VGA ===
The widely used VGA mode was the MCGA : 320x200x256. When those kind of display were widely available the CGA and EGA were obsolete and the PC could start to kick Amiga and Atari ST standards out of the place. VGA could also display a 640x480x16 video mode. All those from a 262,144colour total palette (6x6x6 bits). The VGA could also display emulate all previous modes from CGA and EGA cardsmodes. However, as VGA monitors no longer supported 15.7kHz scan rates, CGA, EGA, and MCGA modes were line-doubled to match the monitor's capabilities.
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This looks quite like a ZX Spectrum palette.
Note: Color 6 is treated specially. Normally, color 6 would become dark yellow, but in order to achieve a more pleasing brown tone, special circuitry in most RGBI monitors makes an exception for color 6 and changes its hue from dark yellow to brown. Some monitors even provide a potentiometer labelled "BROWN ADJ." to adjust this color.
*EGA palette :