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		1313ed01 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old B... 160x100 CGA low resolution could do 16 color (bit of a hack, but semi-official). And then there were tricks to get more colors in higher resolutions as well, especially if you used the TV output instead of a CGA monitor. https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-...

vardump 73 days ago [–]

> 160x100 CGA low resolution could do 16 color (bit of a hack, but semi-official).

That's a text mode, but ok, I think some games used it for graphics.

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