Well Nancy has come up with the best answer sofar! While perhaps all 
the answers were correct in a way... No one mentioned you can get more 
then 256 colors using the on board 1mb video!
I used my C500 for a long time without a PCi video card. I'm going by 
memory here but here is what i remember. A lot will depend on the 
monitor size you are using which you didn't give us in your question.
My Apple multi-sync 15 inch monitor did millions of colors (Yes !) at  
640 x 480 settings and thousands of colors at 800x 600. You may have to 
choice all settings rather then recommended settings in monitor 
controls. A 17 in monitor maybe able to do thousands of colors at 640x 
480 but 800x 600 would likely be 256 colors. Later Will S


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