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This game fascinated the hell out of me as a little kid, playing it on the Atari 1200XL. I never quite managed the patience or focus to actually figure out any of the game's more opaque mechanics, but flying the B-liner around was pretty fun. I read that novella a bunch, too.
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Iunnrais posted: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. Programs had to be specifically designed with composite in mind to take advantage of that feature, and unfortunately very few were. I have no idea if this is one of the few examples.
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