And if you went for the color depth because your graphics accelerator could do HighColor at 800x600 you had to decide between 15-bit and 16-bit colors.
I don't remember having the choice of 15-bit. I only remember having the choice of "256" (8-bit indexed palette), "thousands" (16-bit "high color," with 5:6:5 bits per channel for RGB respectively), or "millions" (24-bit, 8 bits per channel).
I don't know if you actually experienced internet in the 90s. It got the job done, but it really killed the mood when the image stopped loading at the eyebrows or someone tried calling.
23 Comments
yakko@feddit.uk · 68 pts · 50d
Built-in spreadsheet capabilities 🙀
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 50d
Hey, VisiCalc was an absolute revelation, man!
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d
To be fair most of the spreadsheet capabilities I use are cloud hosted now.
yakko@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 49d
Don't remind me.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 50d
Hey, 16 bit color is well over 65,000 colors - just how many do you need to show a lousy deck of cards?!?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 50d
I dunno. Like 4?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 48d
Hey now, the Game Boy had only 4 shades of grey and it was badass.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 48d
Four Color Theorem
febrile@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 49d
Matthew Perry was a huge gamer so this fits (he voiced a character in Fallout New Vegas because he was a fan of the series)
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 28 pts · 49d
3D Pinball: Space Cadet
voodooattack@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d
I miss this.
akwd169@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 49d
Space cadet 3D pinball for android
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
Here’s Space Cadet for Windows
And for Linux
grue@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 50d
I actually remember the Solitaire card back images being dithered because I had the resolution turned up (and thus the color depth turned down).
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d
And if you went for the color depth because your graphics accelerator could do HighColor at 800x600 you had to decide between 15-bit and 16-bit colors.
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
I don't remember having the choice of 15-bit. I only remember having the choice of "256" (8-bit indexed palette), "thousands" (16-bit "high color," with 5:6:5 bits per channel for RGB respectively), or "millions" (24-bit, 8 bits per channel).
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 49d
Porn
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 49d
I don't know if you actually experienced internet in the 90s. It got the job done, but it really killed the mood when the image stopped loading at the eyebrows or someone tried calling.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 49d
I'm old old.
Safe click, not porn
https://asciiart.website/cat.php?category_id=138
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 49d
I love that website. This one is a personal favourite of mine.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 48d
Me: Buys mid-highend desktop Also me: Plays exclusively 2D roguelites, Minecraft and old games
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
In 2026 you need that juice for the web browser.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 48d
Check out the Baud on this bad boy!