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The Saga of the Color Brown in the Early Years of the PC (2023)
Vintage computers and retro gaming
It did not support the intensity signal out of the box, so with a CGA card you only were able to see the 8 primary colors : black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, yellow, white. While Sierra generally prioritized composite artifact color graphics in its early titles, it usually understood that it had to provide some kind of solution for owners of RGB displays. Learning with Leeper and Wizard of Id's WizType use this palette in their RGB monitor modes.However, Sierra's port of Frogger looks best with brown, not dark yellow.
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