curtmackInspired by an offhand comment Alice (@foone) made earlier today: the CGA iceberg
MegatronicThronBanks@megatronicthronbanks There's a special circuit on IBM CGA cards so they render low-intensity yellow as brown. Some clones lacked this circuit, so they would display a darker yellow instead. Also, since RGBI was a digital signal, RGBI monitors needed their own brown circuit.
gloriouscow@curtmack @megatronicthronbanks
this might blow your mind but the brown circuit is not on the CGA card.
it's in the monitor
@gloriouscow I knew there was *a* brown circuit in the monitor, but wouldn't the card have its own brown circuit for composite out? Or does composite out just use dark yellow?
@curtmack It was only added to the digital RGBI 5153 monitor, so you wouldn't see brown in composite mode.
dark yellow kind of looks like pea soup or baby vomit
@curtmack people with memories of CGA games running on a composite monitor just lived in an alternate timeline than the rest of us
@gloriouscow
Cool!
My earliest computer memories are of VGA and Wolfenstein 3D, so all my knowledge of "real" CGA comes from the Internet. The closest I ever got was playing around with ZZT as a teenager and learning why there were 16 text colors but only 8 background colors (because ZZT forces blink mode).
Cool!
My earliest computer memories are of VGA and Wolfenstein 3D, so all my knowledge of "real" CGA comes from the Internet. The closest I ever got was playing around with ZZT as a teenager and learning why there were 16 text colors but only 8 background colors (because ZZT forces blink mode).
Sooo many compromises, because hardware was expensive and things weren't that miniaturised yet!