dr.zeissler wrote on 2022-04-22, 05:48:
Jo22 wrote on 2017-10-27, 12:22:The OAK cards have got a nifty little mode utility called VGAMODE.
It works from the 037c model onwards and allows for a selecti […]
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The OAK cards have got a nifty little mode utility called VGAMODE.
It works from the 037c model onwards and allows for a selection of CGA, EGA, VGA and Hercules(!)
This is nice for CGA games in particular, because the emulation supports palette 0 via registers (tested with Starquake).
Here's a little video with the Hercules mode in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtFhfny_oI
Edit: Utility attached.
but the 3sg demos has some glitches not visable on real hardware.
Ah, I see. You mean the glitch when that whirl/helix scene happens? 🙂
Well, yes, that's not happening on a real Hercules Monochrome card indeed.
My point simply was that this commonly seen "poor" card is doing okay more or less.
It even could display some stuff which DOSBox couldn't at the time. That C64 emu comes to mind.
Not sure which one to blame, though. Perhaps it was that C64 emulator that was programmed in an unorthodox fashion, not sure.
Here're some older photos taken years ago.
They're from another thread originally. 🙂
Edit: To be fair, someone noted the lower/higher case difference in the screenshots.
I think it was my clumsiness that caused it, but maybe the PETSCII chars used for drawing differ enough in lower case mode to cause this effect.
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