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Legacy News #1049

Those of you who follow "the scene" will probably have already heard the sad news: fellow abandonware ring Abandoned Places closed down yesterday. Click here to see Voh's final message. It's a shame really, but if the crew had lost motivation then understandable. Better to make a firm break and shut down officially, rather than letting a site like that wither away and trail off into inactivity. Anyway I wish the guys luck in any future projects they might be involved in.

It's at times like...

Legacy News #1048

It occurred to me, the acronym CGA - for Classic Gaming Archive - also stands for Colour Graphics Adapter, a computer display standard on the PC back in the early 80s.

"CGA could display 8025 or 4025 character text in 16 colours, 640200 pixels bitmap graphics in 2 colours or 320200 in 4 colours, consisting of two palletes: either cyan, magenta, black, and white or green, red, yellow, and black" - from Wikipedia

I'm not sure if they've got anything quite that old, but still an interesting...

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