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Title: 8-bit Starcraft
Post by: Pugnate on Sunday, May 16, 2010, 07:41:31 AM

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Title: Re: 8-bit Starcraft
Post by: scottws on Sunday, May 16, 2010, 09:05:23 AM

I always think of the 8-bit era as the NES era.  That was 4-color CGA stuff, pre-NES.

Title: Re: 8-bit Starcraft
Post by: iPPi on Sunday, May 16, 2010, 11:20:14 AM

That was pretty awesome.

Title: Re: 8-bit Starcraft
Post by: Xessive on Sunday, May 16, 2010, 01:44:22 PM

Haha that looks like MSX or Commodore64!

Title: Re: 8-bit Starcraft
Post by: Cobra951 on Sunday, May 16, 2010, 03:38:51 PM

Yeah, wtf is that really? 

CGA 4-color mode is 2-bit graphics (4 pixels per byte), though people have come to use the bit width of the CPU to refer to game systems.  The SNES uses 8-bit color-indexed graphics, but everyone refers to it as 16-bit.  I forget what the NES gets.  It's like 32 colors at once, isn't it?  I don't know how it encodes its pixels.

Title: Re: 8-bit Starcraft
Post by: Cools! on Monday, May 17, 2010, 10:06:39 AM

Haha, pretty awesome!