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Turns out, the CGA graphics mode was designed with a completely different display device in mind-- not monitors, but composite cables and CRT TVs. Those awful magentas and cyans get distorted by composite cables and actually blur together to create 16 colors (from 4 pallets-- so 64 colors in total) that don't look like poo poo, while only requiring 2 bits per pixel! Mind you those pixels were quite fuzzy and ill-defined... terrible for text... but for graphics they weren't THAT bad for the day. The 8-bit guy on youtube did a pretty neat demonstration on it. I hear DOSbox can simulate the composite CGA mode, but I haven't tried it myself. Iunnrais fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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