Art Bits from Hypercard

Re:Art Bits from Hypercard by paisawalla on Thursday April 21, 2022 @06:37PM (#31116039)

Yes, Mac developers tended to focus only on that platform, and a large portion of its user base was on monochrome for a long time. Therefore, you had a sizeable group of artists and devs who got developed strong techniques for monochrome art.

Comparatively, on PC I never saw CGA graphics which I didn't think were anything but compromised EGA images, which were themselves degraded from VGA images etc. Did anyone else play Prince of Persia on a CGA display?

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Re:Art Bits from Hypercard by Lammy on Thursday April 21, 2022 @08:06PM (#31116702)

Some CGA graphics assumed you would connect it to a TV via composite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors

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Re:Art Bits from Hypercard by reaperducer on Thursday April 21, 2022 @08:10PM (#31116730)

I used to play Sim City on the monochrome 640x200 IBM PC Convertible.

There was a program called "SimCGA" which would fool programs into thinking you had a color CGA graphics adapter so it would run.

Visually, it was awful. But the novelty of playing games on a battery-powered IBM made up for it.

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Re:Art Bits from Hypercard by toast0 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @07:28PM (#31116433)

I never had Prince of Persia, but I had 16-color Tandy graphics that wasn't EGA compatible, so if there wasn't Tandy support, I'd get CGA. Not a lot of CGA games would hook me into playing, when I had other options.

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