Re: IBM 5170 with CGA card defaults to monochrome?
Posted on 2023-03-03, 20:32
Sierra's AGI engine games use a 320x200 resolution with 16 colors on EGA, PCjr. or Tandy. This mode requires 32KiB of RAM to hold a page of graphics data, with each pixel taking half a byte to represent (320 x 200 x .5 = 32,000 bytes). Even an unexpanded IBM EGA card with 64KiB can display these …