![]() ![]() A color NTSC signal is made up of three components, brightness/luma, color/chroma and sync. In this article, let's take a deep dive into how artifact color works on the Apple II and how it was adapted for systems where artifact color could not exist and how artifacts can change according to the display technology inside a display.Īrtifact color is based on a quirk of the NTSC method of decoding color. But the color method used did not translate to PAL countries and later improvements to color filtering could modify the colors shown. The design of the Apple II was so solid that its color works rather well on almost anything that can accept a composite signal, even today. ![]() It worked by exploiting quirks in the NTSC color system called artifact color which TVs were attempting to suppress. The Apple II computer are unique in that not only was it the first home computer ever released to the mass market, it was the first computer released to support color graphics, all the way back in 1977.
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