Gregory's Server@stage7 I remember, but in my case it was more pixel-ish (EGA graphics)
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 @stage7 @Wintermute_BBS lol that's what I was stuck with after I reinstalled Windows 3.1 on the family 486 and couldn't find SVGA drivers  @stage7 @Wintermute_BBS I was probably the only one who noticed at the time. previous computer to the 486 was an IBM PC jr so even 640x480x16 colors looked like LCARS in comparison :3  640×480 was also a big deal because, for the first time, the PC had a graphics mode with square pixels. Most computers at the time (except the Mac) had pixels taller than they were wide. Fun fact: standard VGA can (just barely) do 800×600×4bpp. The VGA BIOS doesn't supply a predefined mode for it, so you have to do black magic similar to Mode X in order to use it. Pity Windows' VGA driver couldn't do that; it would've turned heads and raised eyebrows for sure! @argv_minus_one I've never actually seen it, but Wikipedia claims it can be done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array#Other_graphics_modes and VGA does have enough RAM (800×600×0.5=240000 bytes; VGA has 262144 bytes). |
@Wintermute_BBS I got you (almost) covered, dithering is a bit complicated for GIMP.