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Polychrome :clockworkheart:

Quick reminder that old games weren't as pixelated as you may think they were because CRT monitors had built-in antialiasing, so modern displays shows more of the blocky pixels than you used to see.

You can especially see the difference in the hair and jacket of the attached examples using Beltiana's character profile from Batsugun.

#retrocomputing
11 Aug 2022 at 13:42 | Open on cybre.space
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Brion Vibber

@polychrome when we upgraded our PC from EGA to VGA back in the day, 200-line modes switched to line doubling so old CGA/EGA 320x200 games became *super blocky*

Kids these days don't know low-res used to look sorta ok ;)

11 Aug 2022 at 15:48 | Open on mastodon.technology
Pennywhether

@polychrome Bonus points for using Batsugun for your reference images. <3

11 Aug 2022 at 16:07 | Open on mastodon.online
Lonnon Foster
@polychrome I remember some games that looked worse when I upgraded from a CRT with .25 dot pitch to .21 dot pitch. Pixels were too sharp, lost a lot of the free antialiasing you got from fuzzy pixels. I can't help but feel that this would all be totally irrelevant now, because my eyesight has gone to crap. I get free antialiasing now when I take off my glasses, but it's a bit on the extreme side.
11 Aug 2022 at 17:15 | Open on social.nyerm.com
Polychrome :clockworkheart:

Finally had the opportunity to pull this response in a survey. :doge:
29 Jun 2022 at 20:23 | Open on cybre.space
djsumdog
@polychrome people did recommend Firefox to their friends ... in the late 2000s, back when the only alternative was IE6.

Today they're all pretty much equal levels of garbage.
29 Jun 2022 at 20:25 | Open on djsumdog.com
qdot

@polychrome I have some bad news about the type of volunteers that they'd invite to show up to mozfest/all hands

29 Jun 2022 at 20:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Polychrome :clockworkheart:

Reading about Google dropping support for the Pixel 3 phone after 3 years - no more OS updates - and it just reminded me of when Linux dropped support for the 386.

After 21 years.

486 is still supported.

26 Jan 2022 at 11:18 | Open on cybre.space
Polychrome :clockworkheart:
Polychrome :clockworkheart:

Linus Tech Tips: "Windows and Mac has virtual desktops, but #Linux has had those since the early 2000's!"

Both Gnome and KDE featured virtual desktops on their first release in 1997.

And both were inspired by previous Unix window managers like CDE that had virtual desktops since 1991. :blobcatsip:
26 Oct 2021 at 6:57 | Open on cybre.space
Polychrome :clockworkheart:
Polychrome :clockworkheart:
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