Topic: 8-bit Starcraft

[Pugnate]

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[scottws]

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

[iPPi]

That was pretty awesome.

[Xessive]

Haha that looks like MSX or Commodore64!

[Cobra951]

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.

[Cools!]

Haha, pretty awesome!