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Key features: the NTSC PPU does not output 256x224! It outputs 256x240, but the television set itself covers up the top and bottom 8 scanlines
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* 256 bytes for [[Sprite (computer graphics)|sprite]] data storage
* 32 bytes for palette storage
* 8 ×× 8 or 8 ×× 16 (selectable) sized [[Tile|tiles]]
* Two 4KB [[Tile set|tile sets]] with space for 256 tiles each
* Up to 64 sprites (movable objects) on screen simultaneously (only 8 visible per [[scan line]])
* 25 colors simultaneously (although more colors are possible using programming tricks) from a hardware [[Palette (computing)|color palette]] of 64 colors
* Picture resolution of 256 ×× 224240 forpixels [[NTSC]](fully orvisible on PAL, but cropped to 256 ×× 240224 foron most [[PALNTSC]] television sets)
 
==Technical information==