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| 02:05 | <&McMartin> | ... |
| 02:06 | | * McMartin finally understands what the other many-colors-on-CGA trick was |
| 02:06 | <&McMartin> | You bastards |
| 02:06 | <&McMartin> | What is *wrong* with you |
| 02:06 | <&McMartin> | It involved hooking it to a television, and then going into 640x200 mode and using stipple patterns |
| 02:07 | <&McMartin> | SDTV can only actually *properly* display about 160x240 or you will start getting artifacting. (Most of the old consoles were 320x200 or 320x240 or similar, and stipulated that you ought to double up your pixels to avoid artfacting.) |
| 02:07 | <&McMartin> | So the stippling, in a monochrome graphics monitor, ends up being interpreted as a chrominance signal by the television set. |
| 02:07 | <&McMartin> | -_- |
| 02:10 | <@gnolam> | ... that is some pretty black magic. |
| 02:11 | <&McMartin> | This is also why it's a forgotten technique; as a rule people didn't hook CGA cards to TV sets, because they wanted 80-column text to be legible |
| 02:11 | <&McMartin> | Which meant they'd just get wacky monochrome stripey images if they tried this. |
| 02:12 | <&McMartin> | The hilarious thing is that while that is some serious black magic, it's vastly easier to program than the thing I'm trying to reverse-engineer, which is comparatively vastly saner. |
| 02:13 | <&McMartin> | (That one boils down to "use text cells as 2 pixels each after doing a few things to make the display result way better") |
| 02:13 | <&McMartin> | (But one of those things is well-described as to what it is to do, but I have found no description of *how to fucking do it in terms of putting a signal or a value in a place*, so reverse-engineering code that does it ahoy) |
| 03:05 | <~Vornicus> | ...that is crazy |
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| 07:13 | <&McMartin> | I think I've cracked it |
| 07:13 | <&McMartin> | Sadly, I have real work to do still so this needs to wait for the weekend |
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| 18:06 | <@gnolam> | https://twitter.com/sehnaoui/status/634740838673702912 |
| 18:06 | <@gnolam> | >_< |
| 18:07 | <@Tamber> | Skillz. |
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