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

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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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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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I’ve always loved it. Here in Sweden it’s called text-tv.

Edit: Was supposed to say it’s but said was

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Oh cool. I didn’t understand that it was a completely different tech. TIL, thanks.

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The BBC closed Ceefax in 2012. If that’s the long distant past then my date of birth suggests I’m an antique…

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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.

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

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14 points

Anyone remember playing bamboozle?

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FUCK YES

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When I was a kid I used to play this all the time! Looked forward to new ones.

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