First post, by Neville
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Today I bring you a strange case. Not a PCjr or Tandy compatible, but a game that only shows 16 colors in Amstrad PC1512 mode.
It's a French game called "Les Ripoux".
As for the PC1512, it was a CGA PC compatible sold by Amstrad in Europe, where it became quite popular. Hardware-wise, its main interest is an exclusive 640×200 16 color mode that only a bunch of French games use. It may have been added to showcase GEM, its choice for a desktop manager.
Regular DOSBox builds don't support this PC1512 graphic mode, but if you feel curious you can check it out with PCem or DOSBox-X (where it uses the machine=amstrad option).