• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    There’s something charming about trying to express yourself graphically with access to only 8 colours.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        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.

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        11 months ago

        This is not pc-related though. Teletext was information pages transmitted on UK terrestrial (analogue) television channels in the long-distant past.

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          11 months ago

          I’ve always loved it. Here in Sweden it’s called text-tv.

          Edit: Was supposed to say it’s but said was

        • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          The BBC closed Ceefax in 2012. If that’s the long distant past then my date of birth suggests I’m an antique…