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Any way to get lower bit colors?

Posted by: Paralel on 2014-10-17 18:41:42 I think one area where "4K"/UHD will really take off is PC gaming. Until your eyes are bleeding you don't have enough detail.

Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-10-18 11:20:27

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-10-18 11:26:31 Those cost almost as much as some 4K TV's to buy these days. 😉

Posted by: Paralel on 2014-10-18 15:55:30 It's easy to see where they got their idea for the Protable from.

Posted by: noidentity on 2014-10-23 00:01:57 On the topic, years back when I used a Mac constantly I considered some kind of hack that would patch the main GDevice to be 1/2/4-bit, then in a vertical retrace task remap it to the video card's 8-bit buffer every frame behind the OS's back. Since you usually run those old games at 640x480 or smaller, and this issue was present on fast PowerPC machines, they would have been plenty fast to do this. It'd be somewhat a pixel depth emulator, giving the OS a virtual screen.

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