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		erik on June 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why "next-gen games" went gray, brown, and grey. I could be mis-remembering, but I think Quake started out with a software renderer that operated in VGA mode. So the game has a 256 color palette.

chops on June 12, 2009 [–]

You are correct. Quake was before mainstream 3d accelerators and only had a 256 color palette.

Original quake palette: http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/images/quakepal.gif

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