
#Vintage comic book palette driver
I have no idea what's going on with PCJS or what manner of weird graphics driver it's emulating but this is not what Windows 3 generally looked like if you had a VGA card.

It also seems like your screenshot does not represent the true 16-color palette that Windows 3.x actually used. red is 255/0/0, lime green is 0/255/0, cyan is 0/255/255, etc) while the CGA/EGA hardware palette is a little bit softer and less saturated, as in your Wikipedia link. The Windows 16-color palette is based on pure, fully saturated colors (i.e. Windows does not use the CGA/EGA palette (unless started in EGA mode, which is a thing that can be done) I can't create a product based on your base technology if you don't want me to, but you also can't create a product based on my enhancement if I don't want you to.Ĭlose, but no. However, patent law does work like you mention - you can have a patent on a technology, and I can have a patent on an enhancement over that basic technology. If HBO wants to sell T-shirts with my print, they don't owe me anything. If you then create T-Shirts with my print and sell those, you are also infringing HBO's copyright, and all the money you make is also HBO's legally - you don't owe me 1 cent, since I had no right to copy HBO's work in the first place. If I create and sell prints of a Game of Thrones character, I am infringing HBO's copyright, and any money I make are owed to HBO legally. I don't think that is true at all - as far as I know, copyright on a derived work belongs entirely to the copyright owner of the original work.

crazy colors), that new person does own the copyright in the new "crazy colors" version, but they don't own the copyright to the black and white version. If someone creates a derivative work (e.g.
