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Aaron Bell
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Aaron Bell's personal blog at aaronbell.com covers hardware and games. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Secret colours of the Commodore 64”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Aaron Bell's posts on Commodore 64 graphics tricks, such as the colour-mixing method for extra palette colours, and on running Linux and Steam on a Chromebook.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
words about humans and tech.
Most-linked posts?
- Secret colours of the Commodore 644 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-22
- Secret Colours of the Commodore 643 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
What Hacker News says?
Although the Commodore 64 had a fixed palette, some creative hackers managed to create "impossible" colors by alternating between two colors. Not really palette cycling, but pretty awesome nonetheless. https://www.aaronbell.com/secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64...
Comment linking /secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64/
on “Living Worlds: 8 Bit art animated with palette cycling (2012)”Submitted Secret colours of the Commodore 64 as a story · 398 points
HN discussionWhy use Gallium over crouton? I've used crouton/XUbuntu as my main laptop OS for a couple of years. I've pushed it pretty far, running Steam with a removable SD card to play things like DotA 2 - http://www.aaronbell.com/how-to-run-dota-on-a-chromebook/ Chromebooks are amazingly capable once you add a little storage and update the video drivers.
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on “GalliumOS – Lightweight Linux for Chromebooks”Submitted Secret Colours of the Commodore 64 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI could care less about games looking like they're "authentic" WRT to curvature or phosphor grid pattern, but things like aspect-ratio correction (non-square pixels), colour switching[0], or cheap transparency tricks through composite[1] are another matter entirely. [0]: http://www.aaronbell.com/secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64/ [1]: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.fr/2015/03/the-case-for-comp...
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on “Show HN: Cross-Platform Apple IIe Emulator Written in Go”Submitted Secret colours of the Commodore 64 (2017) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes! http://www.aaronbell.com/secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64/ is a great writeup of this. This seems to have become popular much later than NTSC artifact colours, though.
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on “Stretching the C64 Palette”Submitted Secret Colours of the Commodore 64 as a story · 2 points
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