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Now that splash screen, with its pixelated gradient of the 256 color palette brings back some nostalgic memories.
It's funny because we can see pixelated stuff today mostly in shitty jpeg artifacts, but those follow the jpeg algorithm for how to best conserve file size within their compression scheme, so they look different. This splash screen seemingly has every pixel meticulously chosen so that it's in the right place, and working with only the limits of the color space.
Even better, that splash screen was only 16 colors.
Saved a lot of memory. Even though we had upgraded to 24mb in our Mac Performa at the time.