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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-15, 14:32

Grim Fandango is my go to game. I run it on my Aptiva 433 with a patch. I like to use the “Test Your Hardware” feature in the start menu to see if my machine is good enough. Like others it’s not about the game so much as it is about the machine. I'm planning to play that game soon after I finish …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-14, 08:07

utahraptor wrote on 2020-10-07, 17:33: I just played for the first time the Secret of Monkey Island and finished in one day. It was great! Guybrush's pretty handsome for a point and click adventure game protagonist

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-14, 07:56

I played Sam & Max: Hit the Road a while back. Sam & Max: Hit the Road felt like an extended Day of the Tentacle but with better graphics, a more engaging story, a interface that feels broken sometimes and a mediocre ending. I first played Sam & Max with the hint book, but I gave up and used a …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 13:49

I'm playing Full Throttle at the moment. I thought the story was cool. I played Sam & Max: Hit the Road a while back. Sam & Max: Hit the Road felt like an extended Day of the Tentacle but with better graphics, a more engaging story, a interface that feels broken sometimes and a mediocre ending. I …

Re: Adventure games for beginners

Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:45

Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-10-13, 06:04: I do not play adventure games, but Sam and Max Hit the Road was pretty nice and easy. That game was hard! I had to use a walkthrough for that game. BTW I played that game like several weeks ago.

Re: VGA custom resolution

Posted on 2020-10-13, 06:28

320x400 is indeed possible on every VGA, but the original question was about square pixels and pixels that are 2/3 wider than tall are quite far away from that. You're right. Sorry, I missed that part. :sweatdrop: Just checked my DOS programs and "2SHOW" graphics viewer supports this 360x480 @256c …

Re: Adventure games for beginners

Posted on 2020-10-13, 06:26

Leisure Suit Larry (the first one) is actually very beginner-friendly with puzzles that make sense. It's probably the "easiest" of the Sierra adventures, and is very fair. The AGI version even has a much better parser than most Sierra games. LSL is actually one of the most unforgiving, there are …

Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2020-10-06, 12:01

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Wow... There's a lot of beautiful DOS games. In general, Japanese games made good use of bitmaps, but there were games that were comparable to Western ones. I just happen to know a lot of beautiful looking DOS games. But I played very few of them (lol) I feel like that Sam & Max: Hit the Road is …

Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2020-10-06, 01:12

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Some nice Hi-res (16 color) DOS games: Dokyusei (1992, ELF) https://s.uvlist.net/l/y2011/02/80745.jpg https://s.uvlist.net/l/y2011/02/80742.jpg (Pictured above is the PC-98 version; the DOS version is more or less the same) The Incredible Machine & Sid and Al's Incredible Toons(1993, Dynamix) …

Re: VGA custom resolution

Posted on 2020-09-28, 12:04

EDIT: Another unrelated question here; can SVGA support custom resolutions? If you are talking about custom resolution already supported by the VGA card: Yes, most later SVGA cards also support them, because VGA compatibility was of high importance at that time for the general audience. Graphics …

Re: VGA custom resolution

Posted on 2020-09-28, 01:43

Grzyb wrote on 2020-09-26, 12:35: hyperrmachine wrote on 2020-09-26, 12:19: EDIT: I have a question; What are some custom resolution modes that use square pixels + 256 colors? 320x240 360x270 - may require V-size adjustment on the monitor What's a V-size adjustment? EDIT: Another unrelated question …

Re: VGA custom resolution

Posted on 2020-09-26, 12:19

I have been thinking of making a game for DOS. I want to use VGA so I went through the resolutions. "Narrow" modes such as 256×224 tend to preserve the same pixel ratio as in e.g. 320×240 mode unless the monitor is adjusted to stretch the image out to fill the screen, as they are derived simply by …

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