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by bitwize 65 days ago
You were probably seeing an interlaced video mode, which flickered HAM or no HAM. The signature of HAM was there would be odd color barf at the edges of objects if the colors changed too quickly going left to right because of the hold-and-modify encoding. You saw that a lot with ToasterPaint but when it rendered to the video output it was fine (and even in 24bit color).