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  1. Jim Stormdancer (mogwaipoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 21:40:19 CET Jim Stormdancer Jim Stormdancer
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    ICON: Quest for the Ring (1984) and Seven Spirits of Ra (1987), both by Macrocom, used a tweaked CGA text mode that only displayed the top two pixels of every character. All the art was constructed out of these partial characters.

    Here's an interview with the developers: https://www.mobygames.com/featured_article/feature,10/section,37/

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    • Anatoly Shashkin💾, Linda and Polychrome :clockworkheart: repeated this.
    • Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 11:13:17 CET Tomas SA2TMS Tomas SA2TMS
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      @mogwaipoet 8088 MPH uses a variant of this trick to achieve 1024 colors on the old IBM 5150
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      Sejtan in Hell likes this.
    • Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 15:56:41 CET Tomas SA2TMS Tomas SA2TMS
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      @mogwaipoet Forgot to link the writeup: https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/
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      :meowpumpkin: Spooknjia! :ghost_owo:​ likes this.
    • Jim Stormdancer (mogwaipoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 20:44:21 CET Jim Stormdancer Jim Stormdancer
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      • Tomas SA2TMS

      @tomas Yeah, I love this stuff :)

      In conversation about a year ago permalink

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