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Freeware game Ninja doesn't detect Tandy mode

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First post, by Ryune

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I have been testing ver. 0.72 with several old shareware games, and most of them run just fine. The old game Ninja (from 1986 I think) runs in 4 color CGA mode, but I'm pretty sure that on Tandy 1000 pc's it ran in a 16 color mode. If my memory is right, the resolution used to look like 160x200 in 16 color mode, compared with what looks like 320x200 in 4 colors.

I tried setting the DOSBOX mode to Tandy and then PCjr, but both run with 4 colors only. I don't know enough about the program to guess why it does not detect Tandy graphics mode, when so many other games do.

Reply 1 of 2, by ripsaw8080

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http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ninja_

If that's the game you're referring to, it's not "freeware" unless the copyright owner has explicitly said it is. Anyway, with the HOTU version, set your machine type to tandy in the DOSBox conf file, and make sure you run the ID.EXE program to identify the machine type before running NN.EXE -- this is done for you by the NINJA.BAT file.

Reply 2 of 2, by Ryune

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It's the same game, but the version I had been playing since 1990 is the one in TVDog's Tandy archive:
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/games.html

That version had been on BBS systems way, way back, and it lacks the setup program you mentioned.

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