• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    There’s something charming about trying to express yourself graphically with access to only 8 colours.

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      7 months ago

      More likely EGA or VGA with 16 or 256 available colors. CGA was only 4 and the colors were chosen by someone who really liked pink.

      Still, there was probably some video mode somewhere that only had 8 colors.

      Edit: I didn’t know teletype was not PC related. TIL.

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        7 months ago

        This is not pc-related though. Teletext was information pages transmitted on UK terrestrial (analogue) television channels in the long-distant past.

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        7 months ago

        In your defence it never came to Canada.

        I made that pic myself in a teletext editor, so it’s genuine teletext, not made to look like it.

    • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Same vibe as ENDOOM, though that has access to more colours. Some custom wads feature amazing ones.