People often nostalgically reminisce about archaic technology, laughing about the frustrations and limitations of cassette tapes or floppy disks, before adding ‘but they were amazing at the time!’ However, you simply can’t hide the horror of CGA graphics - the PC’s first color graphics adaptor - behind such rose-tinted glasses (although orange-tinted glasses might help – more on that later). Nobody, absolutely nobody, thought CGA was amazing at the time.
It's hard to imagine this now, when the best graphics cards of today are so far ahead of the hardware in current game consoles, but PC game graphics really were abysmal in those early days, when Nvidia was just a glint in Jensen's eye. I had a CGA PC in the 1980s, and even then you felt disappointed when you fired up a PC game to be greeted by a mess of purple and black on the screen.
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