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'80s game designers had to cheat their way to color graphics
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Developers for machines like the NES and Commodore 64 resorted to dividing the screen into "cells" that could each hold only two colors, a trick that used up just 9K of memory. That meant designers had to be creative to make graphics look good -- in ...
A great explanation for how oldschool graphics workedEurogamer.net

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