CGA cards were capable of displaying graphics at 320x200 and 4 colors - black, white, magenta, and cyan. Cheats Codes or tricks that are programmed into a game which give the player special abilities, like invulnerability or extra weapons. Cheats are often programmed into games to facilitate easy testing, and left in to add depth. Many magazines print cheats for games that they have discovered. Chip A generic term for a semi-conducting integrated circuit.
Chips are generally nearly flat black quadrangles a few millimeters thick.
Cinepak Compression Video compression standard developed by Apple. It provides excellent compression and good video quality. It is an asynchronous compression process - it takes orders of magnitude longer to compress video than to play it back. The traditional architecture of a computer processor, it accepts instructions which it then interprets. CISC chips can process more complex instructions than RISC chips, which makes them easier to program for, but they deliver slower performance at comparable speeds.