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Making purple-stained font should be a criminal offense.
 

Grauken

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Making purple-stained font should be a criminal offense.

It's not designed that way, its a result of how Apple II graphics work

https://paleotronic.com/2018/10/03/apple-ii-colour-computer-graphics/

However, unlike its competitors, the TRS-80 Model I and the Commodore PET 2001, the Apple II was able to display colour – but remarkably, it accomplished this without a dedicated colour video chip. The Apple II’s video hardware is actually monochrome!

So how does it display colours? The Apple II’s designer, Apple co-founder and chief engineer Steve Wozniak, discovered that if he repeated portions of the outgoing digital luminance signal (black or white) and injected it into the “colorburst” or NTSC colour signal, various patterns of pixels produced lines of different colours.

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However, the colour palette (purple and green or blue and orange) could only be changed every seven pixels (with the eighth bit in each video byte used to determine the palette). This made using all four non-monochrome colours on-screen at once a bit tricky, since one could inadvertently change the colour of adjacent pixels.
 
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He would no doubt find Trump in a particularly chunky Tetris block, since Trump lives rent free in his head. Many such cases!
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Desiderius

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Don't like it? Don't read.

I read and don't like it. That not being a thing for people is how they got Trump.

Once in a while people get bored with regular politicians and the elect tyrants, psychopaths or just morons. Unfortunately, such are the times we live in.

And he's none of the above. People projecting bad shit on him like they projected good stuff on Obama.

My guess is he's a Julian the Apostate for the American Republic and it will be all Rainbow Empire from here on out. Hope I'm wrong. And that's enough politics for today.
 

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Corrupt elite in Washington is now Trump and his henchmen.

And noone shits on working man like Trump, who took away his healthcare and dismantled consumer and environmental protection to make big companies ritcher.

Brave, proud American working men prefer to stand dying than bend the knee to commies and socialistic healthcare

Let them
 

Desiderius

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Corrupt elite in Washington is now Trump and his henchmen.

And noone shits on working man like Trump, who took away his healthcare and dismantled consumer and environmental protection to make big companies ritcher.

Good that you could join us from 1974 HM Scargill. Pity what has happened to your Labour movement. Staypuff Trump was the form of Destructor you yourselves chose.
 

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I tried to calculate the "real world" size of Ultima IV. I came up with figures ranging from 4 square miles (if you go with 10 feet per square, which made sense in relation to houses and furniture) to around 75 square miles (if you go by in-game travel time) to 144 square miles (if you go by the practical average size of landscape features). Even at its most generous, Britannia is the size of a large town or a small county......All of this is to say is that "a ship bound from Trinsic to Britain" is more than a little silly since the entirety of the ocean is about the size of a municipal reservoir, and the distance from the dock of Trinsic to the dock at Britain is maybe a dozen boat lengths.

This guy really sucks the joy out of everything
 

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