I'm fairly new to programming and I've noticed that a lot of people use
Screen 13 and a lot of people tell ME to use it.

I would like to know what features SCREEN 13 has that makes it stand out
please.
Thanks in advance.

- It's the only build-in screenmode that supports 256 colors without using
        external libraries
- It's the fastest of all 256 screenmodes
- 320 x 200 x 8 = 64.000, which is exactly one page of videomemory. If you
        have a higher screenmode, you need to switch banks all the time,
        making things much more complex.
        (Only one page of 64KB videomemory can be accessed at any time)
- You can POKE pixels directly into memory, it doesn't used different pages
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- 256 colors
- easy palette changing
- pixel position can be calculated with an easy algorithm (320*y)+x
- Every screen uses exactly one page of video memory
- standard VGA