Commodore Remix

What emulator has the most accurate colors?

From my own perception it's WinVICE.

That's a bit subjective, too...

Just as something looks awesome on your monitor, it could look like crap on a different one

Jax

A lot of people use the "Pepto" palette in VICE for screenshots.

merman wrote:A lot of people use the "Pepto" palette in VICE for screenshots.

Pepto? where can i find those colors? i can't find it in vice...

I use the Rune64 colourset for WinVice - you can see it in all the BZPD demodisk screenshots. Pleasingly accurate.

palette is in fact subjective.

But WinVice has very useful feature : pal-emulation. It makes picture very similar to the oldfashionable C= monitors.

trace wrote:

merman wrote:A lot of people use the "Pepto" palette in VICE for screenshots.

Pepto? where can i find those colors? i can't find it in vice...

I thought they'd added it in a recent version, but I can't find it in 1.19.
Anyway, here's a link:

http://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/

The commonly used palettes for emulation are Pepto's and Deekay's.

Without firing up the emulation debate, colours are quite different (even when using PAL-TV emulation) in comparison to using a C64 on a TV or old C= monitor

I've especially noticed the dark Grey is very strong (almost black). Something I should remember considering I had a 128D when I was a kid which has in the light Green and dark Grey Basic 7 screen. Furthermore the edges of colours blur together too as opposed to sharp colour edges of emulation.

Doesn't all this depend if people use gamma correction on their video card / Monitor Setup RGB blocks ? Surely if they doin't any colours will come out wrong anyway ! however rendered.

What we really need, is to sample the RGB values from a c64 screenshot in photoshop and compare that with dropper values from (insert emu of choice) to compare.

Yes, colour correction is a form of art on its own. And, every TV set / monitor was propably adjusted differently regarding brightness, contrast, saturisation etc... thus as the others said the "right" VIC palette remains a subjective thing. WinVice and CCS look pretty much like how I remember it, especially with PAL Emulation. Older versions of Frodo or PC64 just looked wrong / far too saturated.

I think Power64 on Mac is more accurate than most of the PC emus. I haven't A/B tested with a real C64, just my memory.

Pepto's is the default in Power64, for what it's worth.

merman wrote:

trace wrote:

merman wrote:A lot of people use the "Pepto" palette in VICE for screenshots.

Pepto? where can i find those colors? i can't find it in vice...

I thought they'd added it in a recent version, but I can't find it in 1.19.
Anyway, here's a link:

http://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/

Those colors do look good allthough i guess it is like you all say gamma correction and old, new monitors and seeing the c64 colors on a tv is ALOT different

And much i guess is in the eyes of the beholder

For your convenicence:
http://www.remix64.com/download.php/282/pepto.vpl