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Faicuai, let's forget games for the moment, we want recreate setting, witch could match BASIC description. It is like, I don't know, you can call it retro-computer archaeology. Imagine the task 3000 years from now Can you call first color bar from your picture Light Orange(Gold)? We heard the stories about working environment at ATARI but you can't blame drug usage alone, can you? There is many questions to answer, maybe someone on this forum knows the answers? Why they set "color reference" (BASIC manual, SALT instruction, Atari 400/800 Field Service Manual) and then where using for some games and for some not? (I'm looking for Super Salt manual pdf) Is anybody there who worked in Atari Service or as programmer who can tell how it was? Looks like PAL colors are based on this "reference" and it make sense because you can easily make games for both COLOR systems you will get similar colors. I'm just waiting for sunset to take more pictures to support my hypothesis and conclusions

Colors from BASIC manual for SETCOLOR are: 0 Gray 1 Light Orange(Gold) 2 Orange 3 Red-Orange 4 Pink 5 Purple 6 Purple-Blue 7 Blue 8 Blue 9 Light Blue 10 Turquoise 11 Green-Blue 12 Green 13 Yellow-Green 14 Orange-Green 15 Light Orange Can anybody get these colors on TV? I guess Luminance must be set 6 or 8 because of light colors. Second, color bars from SALT might be the one. Quest is to set NTSC TV/monitor to get these colors.

NTSC Bloody crocs

Apparently we are only looking for NTSC Phase/Color Balance TV setting witch is correct with description from BASIC manuals, so let's put aside Altirra setings. Must be the reason why they written these color guides, yes? It's our quest

Just tried and it is not right In basic try SETCOLOR 2,1,8 SETCOLOR 2,2,8 and so on to 15...(not sure witch luminance is better 6 or 8 ) But as I said they (Atari guys ) where using 2 color settings for some reason so Star Raiders is safe My seting for Altirra will be standard NTSC then hue start -23 and hue step 25,6