Gemini24601@lemmy.world to 196 · 9 months ago40 Kilobyte Rulelemmy.worldimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1666
arrow-up1666image40 Kilobyte Rulelemmy.worldGemini24601@lemmy.world to 196 · 9 months agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up58·9 months agoBecause the instructions, “draw a brick here, a pipe there, here are the rules for how jumping works, etc.” are smaller than “these pixels are blue, that one is orange, that one is white, etc.”
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 months agoAlso, this jpeg has multiple pixels where there would only be one pixel on the nes
minus-squaregramathy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoMore: that palette was hard coded and the actual in use palettes were even smaller subsets of the system palette to reduce memory demand
Because the instructions, “draw a brick here, a pipe there, here are the rules for how jumping works, etc.” are smaller than “these pixels are blue, that one is orange, that one is white, etc.”
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Also, this jpeg has multiple pixels where there would only be one pixel on the nes
More: that palette was hard coded and the actual in use palettes were even smaller subsets of the system palette to reduce memory demand