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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social

wow, there's a PC-88 version of Aztec, and it looks like this?

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aug 5, 2025, 11:05 pm • 80 7

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Pierogi Hustler @pierogihustler.bsky.social

What's Aztec Atari or commodore

aug 5, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social

i know it as an atari game but i am sure there must be a few other ports

aug 6, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net

Apple 2 also!

Aztec screenshot
aug 6, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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mitochondrial steve @snackjicholson.bsky.social

the art style is diabolical

aug 6, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
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mara🌌✨ @marahuldra.bsky.social

nice glitch aesthetic, it was way ahead of its time !

aug 6, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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A Mother Mole @amothermole.bsky.social

I love it.

aug 6, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social

Surely something must have gone a bit wrong here, no?

aug 6, 2025, 7:04 am • 2 0 • view
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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social

Yeah, looks like the image has been forced into the CGA palette when that wasn't intended

aug 6, 2025, 7:53 am • 3 0 • view
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social

the rest of the screenshots were less riotously colorful. maybe they arrived on a method which works for most of the game, and only the intro is weird?

aug 6, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social

the colors under the top of the mountain are clearly supposed to be darker and fade into black.

aug 6, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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Richard @benjymous.bsky.social

I wonder if it's an Apple-II like weird NTSC CRT hack thing that the emulator clearly had no hope in replicating

aug 6, 2025, 3:55 pm • 3 0 • view
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ShreksHellraiser @shrekshellraiser.bsky.social

Pretty sure this is it, I have an original IBM 5150 and it's not uncommon for software to use CGA color patterns in composite mode to artificially make more colors (I actually wrote software to do this, albeit incorrectly, github.com/ShreksHellra... )

aug 6, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Laura 🏳️‍⚧️ @abrakdvra.bsky.social

Everytime someone says "aztec" I get flashbacks of de_aztec from CS1.6 :p

aug 6, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social

it's like song / word associations but for intense gaming duress.

aug 6, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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That Ryan Guy @thatryanguy.bsky.social

Wow thats some really old graphics. Looks so cool. I bet looked glorious back then

aug 6, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view