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Tommy Thorn (tommythorn@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:26:40 UTC Tommy Thorn
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- Anatoly Shashkin💾
@dosnostalgic Right, but that's just the beginning. The encoding with all the weirdness is what makes this fun.

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Tommy Thorn (tommythorn@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:20:50 UTC Tommy Thorn
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- Anatoly Shashkin💾
@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
In conversation Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:20:50 UTC from chaos.social permalink
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1. HIRES Graphics on Apple II
  
  from @pixinn
  
  In 1977, the Apple II was the very first personal computer providing color graphics capabilities with its LORES and HIRES modes. This feat was achieved in a very clever, but peculiar way.

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