Amateurs' Tools
TMS9918 still has plenty of fans who nowadays create lots of PC tools for character design, sprite design and for converting true color images to Screen 2. With respect to this latter application, it is worth underlining the use of dithering algorithms (e.g. Floyd-Steinberg) in order to overcome the color clash problem and the limitations of the fixed palette.
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