Examples

• 

  ZX Spectrum LOI Loading screen by DarkfalzX

• 

  Mercenary 2: Samus Aran Forever by diver

• 

  Sureshot by diver

Comments (3)

B I U

Lospec Set

Insert Link

URL:

Text:

Cancel

Insert

Insert Image

URL:

Cancel

Insert

Edit Link

URL:

Text:

Cancel

Save

Submit

Vlad April 27, 2025

The original palette is an approximation of the ZX Spectrum's video signal itself (before the CRT transforms it). That's why it's a bit too raw and harsh.

The "adjusted" palette approximates the image after the CRT and PAL processing, i.e. how a person would've actually seen it on a real TV. It bakes in the CRT gamma and PAL-to-sRGB shifts before rounding to 8-bit color > makes it more suitable for display on modern LCD screens.

reply

Bernat Arlandis May 14, 2021

None of the examples use this palette but similar ones. The colors differ from the theoretical real colors. Maybe they were taken from an emulator screenshot or a jpeg image. Can the author give us insight?

reply

Marshall Bockrath August 17, 2020

Does anyone know where these colors came from as "the" ZX Spectrum colors?   The specific choices are more interesting than their straight definitions in sRGB, but I can't figure out how they were derived.

reply