Colorization of old black and white text mode Radio-86RK (Радио-86РК ) games

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ZX Spectrum Hotel

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Published on April 27, 2020 8:43:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pa3Yk546o

Game:

I Wanna Be the Guy (2007)

Duration: 6:30

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Radio-86RK was build-it-yourself home computer designed in 1986 and ancestor of entire generation of home and educational computers in Soviet Union. Published in 1986 in a series of articles in a magazine with the name Radio (now we would call it Open Source hardware project), it became first soviet successful mass computer. Having 64 x 25 monochrome characters was huge limit for games, but with help of emulation it can be improved a little bit towards 16 CGA text mode colors (including blinking). Same idea can be used to add color to other text mode software of other old monochrome computers.
Eventually this computer receives the color add-on, but vast majority of games was black and white and requireы patching for adding color. With one simple emulator patch I add color to entire library :)

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