Need to find a Atari 8-bit specialist

I'm trying to emulate perfectly the 256 color palette of the ATARI 800 & ATARI XL/XE series. Any help appreciated. I can send a screenshot of the palette I generated, see how it compares with the real machine.

Thanks.

Does this help? you should be able to analyse the rgb values in psp or something

Oh I tried the Atari800WinPLus colors, but I didn't find them realistic. Look at the values how they jump from mid bright to high bright. Some are too slimiar, etc. I don't see that as a creditable color palette.

I'll probably have to find a Atari newsgroup with some 8-bit coders.

These are mine:

OK found Graph2Font software. Maytbe I'll get a palette from there also to compare.

http://g2f.atari8.info/

You should have asked twenty years ago. I would still have remembered this.

There was a 256-color palette and you could change it by changing a pointer. But I don't remember if there was anything that you would call a standard Atari 800 palette.

Well, in certain 16 color modes, if you select the hue, you then get 16 shades of that hue (mode 9 I think, or mode 11). So a fancy programmer could do Display List tricks and display all 256 colors on 1 screen and we'd get the idea of what the full 256 colors of the 8-bit are officially. 20 years ago, the CRTs weren't as good as today's, neither were the RF converters (mind you that didn't change much). But the goal is I want to know the colors the 8-bit machine is giving. I too had one 20 years ago (1985 to 1987), so I wouldn't even ask that question then ;).

EDIT: This is what G2F gives. Seems G2F dev team thinks the colors aren't shifted 27° angle like A800+ dev thinks, but 24°... And I can't validate this, it could be false. I need someone with the real machine to check for me, LOL!


Here are the MESS 0.115 colors (very different, more saturated):