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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

The CGA card used that technique anyway. The IBM CGA card had a 9-pin RGBI digital output and an RCA analog NTSC output. There was a 16 color text mode, rarely used. Color graphics were usually done via the 4 color mode, which chose between four awful pallettes: light and dark variants of white black magenta and cyan, or yellow black red-orange and yellow. So they appeared kinda terrible on an RGBI monitor, but by dithering the colors together and using the analog output, you'd get other colors.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    That's right. They got more colors on-screen for slightly better graphics than I remember on IBM 5150.

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