root42 wrote on 2022-07-04, 11:46:
Back to the topic: A friend of mine had an XT machine in 1990/1991, with EGA card and used to play Populous on it. Wasn't super fast, but it worked.
That sounds interesting! 🙂👍
I vaguely remember that EGA was slower by design than both CGA and MCGA.
Not sure if that was tied to the EGA hardware in particular, or also the EGA graphics modes.
Either way, an EGA card was quite an upgrade over CGA.
Those 350 lines of EGA and Hercules were good enough for graphical environments and painting programs.
Makes me wonder how Deluxe Paint would perform on an EGA XT..
As far as games go, many text adventures with graphics work on EGA systems already.
Even if they're meant for VGA, they can still run in EGA resolution most of the time.
Hm. Games.. I think that Skyroads could run on EGA, too.
There also was Captain Comic ('88), it seems to use EGA, too.
Other games were the Hugo's House of Horrors series.
Last Half of Darkness also uses EGA, even in the "VGA" version.
That being said, I highly recommend installing a NEC CPU, if possible.
Many later DOS games seem to use 80186/80286 instructions at some point.
But not so much in 1990, perhaps, I admit.
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