{"id":18624,"date":"2018-01-18T22:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2018-01-20T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:02:21","slug":"the-macrocom-method-is-a-text-mode-trick-for-pc-to-use-16-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=18624","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/2c30fcdd4901a0798c11138a4e3afc00\/tumblr_p18gkgkoiW1rpiyaso1_500.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Macrocom Method is a text mode trick for PC to use 16-colour hi-res graphics in CGA. The principle was to use only the top two pixel rows of each text character, and remove the rest. <a href=\"https:\/\/8088mph.blogspot.se\/2015\/04\/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated.html#the_macrocom_method\">Image by VileR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Macrocom was a company that first showed this trick in 1984 with the game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UW6btbWL55Y\">ICON<\/a>. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldskool.org\/shrines\/lbd\">here<\/a>. h\/t: Rowan Lipkovits<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macrocom Method is a text mode trick for PC to use 16-colour hi-res graphics in CGA. The principle was to use only the top two pixel rows of each text character, and remove the rest. Image by VileR. Macrocom was a company that first showed this trick in 1984 with the game ICON. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1407,850,475,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18626,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions\/18626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}