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Oh, you just slapped a 1MB image on your web page? That’s nice.

Back in the day, folks were hiding running code and data in the graphics of their games that had to fit into 22KB.

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Screenshot of BBC Micro driving game Rev with the code and data normally hidden in blue in the sky shown in yellow.

Hidden secrets of the custom screen mode - Revs on the BBC Micro

A deep dive into hidden secrets of the custom screen mode in BBC Micro Revs
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David S
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I had a pale blue sky and pale green grass with grey track in my version of Revs...

Acorn user had a guide to building a clever bit of hardware that could map the rgb onto other colours. It was a couple of components on a vero board connected to the user port (for configuring it). Once set, it just worked

I built it with a mate one weekend and we were so chuffed it actually worked. I can't for the life of me remember the name of it though, but it would have been 1989 or 1990 I think

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