c/internetfuneral · by i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 2yThe end of the world is nigh 265 points · 13 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 52 pts · 2y
There's something charming about trying to express yourself graphically with access to only 8 colours.
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
More likely EGA or VGA with 16 or 256 available colors. CGA was only 4 and the colors were chosen by someone who really liked pink.
Still, there was probably some video mode somewhere that only had 8 colors.
Edit: I didn't know teletype was not PC related. TIL.
teeps@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 2y
This is not pc-related though. Teletext was information pages transmitted on UK terrestrial (analogue) television channels in the long-distant past.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I've always loved it. Here in Sweden it's called text-tv.
Edit: Was supposed to say it's but said was
PixxlMan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
It's still around!
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I know but I don't use my TV as a TV anymore! Do see that I wrote "was" though.
There's also the app, but it's not the same.
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
Oh cool. I didn't understand that it was a completely different tech. TIL, thanks.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
The BBC closed Ceefax in 2012. If that’s the long distant past then my date of birth suggests I’m an antique…
DarkThoughts@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Not just the UK.
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 2y
In your defence it never came to Canada.
I made that pic myself in a teletext editor, so it's genuine teletext, not made to look like it.
Klear@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Same vibe as ENDOOM, though that has access to more colours. Some custom wads feature amazing ones.
Megaphauna@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
FUCK YES
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
When I was a kid I used to play this all the time! Looked forward to new ones.