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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Sep-2022 22:58:13 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   For some reason Phantasmagoria (1995) comes bundled with 47 screenshots from Mystery House (1980)

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 11:29:29 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • root42

     @root42 Nope

   • root42 (root42@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 11:29:32 UTC root42

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     @dosnostalgic Is there something like an "extras" section of "making of" which delves into Sierra's history?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 11:30:57 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Trinsec

     @trinsec It is. The first. And the first graphical adventure we know of, in general.

   • Trinsec (trinsec@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 11:30:58 UTC Trinsec

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     @dosnostalgic Isn't that one of Sierra's *first* graphical adventures?

   • Tommy Thorn (tommythorn@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:20:50 UTC Tommy Thorn

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     @dosnostalgic That sent me down a rat-hole of learning what that game was and ended up learning something insane: the intricacies of the Apple II's hires mode: https://www.xtof.info/hires-graphics-apple-ii.html
     That looked like a "fun" challenge to use.
     #retrocomputing

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:21:04 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Tommy Thorn

     @tommythorn Yep. It's NTSC composite artifact color. See also: PC CGA composite output. Pretty much the same deal.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:26:38 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Tommy Thorn

     @tommythorn Yeah, that stuff is a bit wacky.

   • Tommy Thorn (tommythorn@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:26:40 UTC Tommy Thorn

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     @dosnostalgic Right, but that's just the beginning. The encoding with all the weirdness is what makes this fun.