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Good video, but a dupe of: http://www.videosift.com/video/FLAIRS-TRUCKERS-DELIGHT

>> ^demon_ix:
^ The thread on reddit took offense to calling this 8 bit. Apparently it's 16 bit at least. The thread sort of got side-tracked when someone suggested it might be 9.3453-bit.


Sigh... most of them probably have never heard of palettes.

Alot of the 8-bit systems used palettes, meaning while only 2^8=256 simultaneous colours could be displayed in a the framebuffer, those 256 could be chosen out of a far larger range of colours. In the case of VGA, for example, 262144 were available, giving 64 values each for red, green and blue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array#The_VGA_color_palette

So reasonably fine graduations were possible even with an 8-bit limit in the framebuffer. Many games of the time would use a custom palette for each scene/map/level, to squeeze the best quality out of each situation.

The only way to successfully argue that this is or is not 8-bit is to analyze every single frame for a maxiumum of 256 colours displayed at a time. To be technically accurate, it could use a separate palette for each frame. Compounding the problem, though, video compression can make it appear that more than 256 colours were used so the original uncompressed form would need to be analyzed. Prolly be someone with too much time on their hands =P

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Yeah, and the vid is seriously fucked up.