Tue 26 November 2024

Background

In the halcyon days of 16-bit microcomputers, there was a computer graphics technique used by many demos and some games known as Palette Rotation, Palette Shifting, Palette Animation, or Color Cycling.

Computers weren't fast enough to change the entire contents of screen memory in graphics mode (even relatively low …

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Fri 01 November 2024

This article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.

Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:

I'm going to …

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Sat 30 March 2024

Just a few days before Christmas Day, 1989, I excitedly carried home one of the greatest Christmas gifts I have ever received. I vaguely remember going with my stepdad to the university computer store (The "MicroCentre," it was called; no relation to the large, currently-extant computer store chain) to pick …

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