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1. Jim Stormdancer (mogwaipoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 21:40:19 CET 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/

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   • Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 11:13:17 CET 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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   • Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 15:56:41 CET 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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   • Jim Stormdancer (mogwaipoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 20:44:21 CET Jim Stormdancer

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     • Tomas SA2TMS

     @tomas Yeah, I love this stuff :)