You can GET 17 Colors I makecode ?!?!?!🙀

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If this is an artificial limitation, are the hardware screens just normal, mini TV-grade screens? As in, without the rest of the components, I could just plug Netflix into it? (kinda joking here, but seriously, what is the true limit to these screens, if we didn’t use this limitation) Also, on another post, @richard (I think it was Richard) said there was a browser/app-exclusive mouse and keyboard support in development. If we could have this sort of feature, could we have a browser-only multi-colour support too? Perhaps this and the keyboard thing could also work on retropi if you figured out how (well, keyboard does work to an extent on raspberry as a controller, nothing more).

Sorry for the long post and I went far too off topic here at the end…

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Eventually

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… how do I get to edit the view-only files in the editor?

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@Salex that’s not something you can do in the editor

The only way to do this would be to fork the pxt-arcade repo on GitHub, which I would not recommend doing.

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I believe for the Adafruit PyGamer, it uses the ST7735R TFT driver, which has 16 bit colors. I think it would be a reasonable assumption that the rest of the devices Arcade support has 16 bit color support in hardware.