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by mortenjorck 1934 days ago
I never would have guessed that the Kickstart 1.x graphic was vector, but it’s so clear in retrospect. It’s not hard to spot the nodes of the pre-Bézier shape paths once you’re looking for them!
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ROM space was definitely at a premium, similarly the PS1 booting splash screen was a rendered 3d graphic, with synthesized sound, not a static image with PCM data.

You can have some fun with causing it to corrupt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcbhDbCY7Q