Hey, here's a seasonal gift from all of me to all of you. I've never liked the default VDC palette in WinVICE, so tonight I put my two monitors together and eyeballed a more "correct" palette in Photoshop. Hope you like it!
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e83/saehn/palette.png)
It seems closer to me, I'm happy with it. Here's how you update yours in WinVICE:
First, switch to 80 column mode (enter GRAPHIC5) in WinVICE, and then make some reverse-space color bars so you can see a before/after effect.
Click here (http://www.mediafire.com/?4twm3tqyxz2) to download my VPL to your Program Files/WinVICE/C128 directory (you Linux guys can figure out the equivalent I'm sure).
In WinVICE, click Settings --> Video Settings --> VDC Palette. Click the browse button and load my VPL (vdc_saehn.vpl). Click OK out of it, and you should see your new palette!
Here are the RGB values (I kept them as RGB pairs).
# Black
00 00 00 0
# Medium Gray
66 66 66 8
# Blue
00 00 CC 4
# Light Blue
44 55 FF 8
# Green
00 DD 00 4
# Light Green
77 FF 99 8
# Dark Cyan
22 CC BB 4
# Light Cyan
99 FF FF C
# Dark Red
DD 00 00 4
# Light Red
FF 77 77 8
# Dark Purple
BB 11 EE 4
# Light Purple
FF 88 FF 8
# Brown
EE 77 00 4
# Yellow
FF FF 55 C
# Light Gray
CC CC CC C
# White
FF FF FF E