/vr/ - Retro Games

Operation Neptune, The Genie's Curse, Shattered Lands, Dragon Lore, US Navy Fighters, Quake.

Honestly I never heard of so called DOS "classics" Jazz Jackrabbit or Commander Keen before the internet.

>>2820035
>fuck, that light magenta is just one of the ugliest colors of them all
You do realize that you are fundamentally criticizing the way humans perceive light, mathematics, and the most logical manner in which to implement a color display, right?

The reason why 'light magenta' is part of the palette is thus:

1) The human eye has 3 types of cells (cones) sensitive to the intensity of 3 spectra centered on red, green, and blue.
2) Color displays need then only have pixels that can vary the intensity of red, green, and blue light.
3) Simplest strategy is to have a pixel's colors either be on or off, leading to 2^3=8 combinations of colors:
>>2806137
RGB color
000 black
001 blue
010 green
011 cyan
100 red
101 magenta
110 yellow
111 white

It seems CGA went a little further and tried to add some more color depth with the dark and light palettes, but the light colors are arguably the pure colors just described.

>>2805735
OP thinks the palette is gay, but OP couldn't handle the truth, which is prolly that from a hardware implementation perspective the palette is exceptionally easy to define, being composed of every other entry in the table above (including both black and white). The pattern is that blue is always on.

>>2805845
To drive my point home further, this appears to be an example an image using the complement palette, the pattern being blue is always off.

I'm honestly talking out of my ass on the subject of CGA, but I have confidence that the engineers at IBM weren't neckbeards, and that the only neckbeards are those who criticize technology without stopping to think that maybe something was designed that way for a reason.

This fucking game.