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Home computers
|280x192
|6 colors (high res), 15 colors (low res) <ref group=Q name=apple>The original Apple II doesn't actually implement color in hardware, instead utilising a quirk of how NTSC displays video to generate color, as the pixel clock is the same as the NTSC subcarrier. As a consequence, PAL Apple IIs would display in black and white unless a separate PAL color card was added</ref>
|240p,288p
|60 (NTSC), 50 (PAL)<ref group=Q name=five>Preliminary or approximate value.</ref>
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|160x192,320x192
|128/256 colors, Color/Luminance <ref group=Q name=atari>The early Atari 400/800 models used the CTIA chip which supports 128 colors, models manufactured after 1981 used the updated GTIA chip which increases this to 256</ref>
|240p,288p
|60 (NTSC), 50 (PAL)<ref group=Q name=five></ref>
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|160x200,320x200<ref group=Q name=c64>It is possible to trick the VIC-II chip into drawing sprites outside this area, yielding a higher resolution</ref>
|16 colors
|240p,288p
|60 (NTSC), 50 (PAL)<ref group=Q name=five></ref>
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|320x200,640x200
|4096 colors, RGB
|240p,288p
|60 (NTSC), 50 (PAL)<ref group=Q name=five></ref>
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|320x200,640x200,640x400,320x256,640x256,640x512
|4096 colors, RGB
|240p,288p,480i,576i
|60 (NTSC), 50 (PAL)<ref group=Q name=five></ref>
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