I watched a long technical interview on myst one and apparently the reason it looked like ass despite being prerendered is be because every island was stuck having 256 colors for the entire thing and they couldn't swap the palette out without the screen going black (???)
CDs back then could stream 150kbps apparently (not factoring in seek times)

CDs back then could stream 150kbps apparently (not factoring in seek times)

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