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CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!
The 8-Bit Guy
The 8-Bit Guy covers IBM's 1981 CGA graphics system, including how composite output and artifacting produced extra colors beyond the nominal palette. He argues CGA looked better in period than it does on RGB monitors.
HN recommends it for showing how old developers exploited the smeary nature of composite signals and what CGA really looked like on period hardware.
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