VIC-II modes, enhanced VIC-II modes, and VIC-III modes.

The VIC-III supports, what are called, "VIC-II" video modes. It also supports enhancements to the basic VIC-II modes. There are, also a variety of all-new VIC-III modes. In order to utilize any enhanced VIC-11 mode, or any VIC-III mode, a special keying sequence is required.

• VIC-II modes
  • Standard Character Mode
  • Multi-Color Character Mode
  • Extended Color Made
  • Bit Map Mode
  • Sprites
• Enhancements available to VIC-II modes
  • 80 column character modes (vs standard 40 columns)
  • 640 x 200 pixel bit maps (vs standard 320 x 200)
  • Programmable colors
  • Character attributes -- Underline, Blink, Reverse, Hilight
  • Alternate character set
  • Interlace
• VIC-III video modes
  • Bitplane modes
  • 1280 pixel ultra-high resolution
  • 400 line operation