And the dithering was wicked fast. I remember playing back multiple videos on NextSTEP fully dithered and quite good looking where the same machine (dual boot setup Intel P90) had huge issues even playing back one video.

Whoops! Yes, you’re right. I had misremembered its colour depth, but I recall it was bigger than the 256 colors of the VGA displays of the time.

Unfortunately I can’t go back and edit the original post to fix. Thanks for correcting me!