I remember when cutscenes in a game was equal to having a good game, or at least a good looking game. Off course this is a long time ago, back when you had to write your own config.sys and autoexec.bat files so your games could run (and yes – I am referring to the good “old” DOS days).

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So what is a display format? Basically, a display format tells you how each pixel on the screen is represented. The very first display formats were monochrome, meaning each pixel could be either blank or one color (usually white, depending on the monitor), and each pixel could be represented by a single bit. Later, computers got a lot more complex and could use 2-bits (four colors) or 4-bits (16 colors) to store color information, usually preset color values.

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