Indeed, although in those days the hard shadows were due to technical issues (very limited colour depth). Sometimes you even had to swap palettes because they r

Indeed, although in those days the hard shadows were due to technical issues (very limited colour depth). Sometimes you even had to swap palettes because they required different sets of the 256 available colours. You would click one program (xv - the picture viewer known as xview was a big candidate as it really needed to tailor its palette to show pictures decently) and all the others screwed up and vice versa. 32 bit full colour with alpha channel is amazing <3 Palettes were such a pain.