Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2024-01-02, 10:20

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Now on Nec 71vm instead of Nec 1970nxp...slighlty more problematic (last lines are always doubled) but hercules is no nice...to me better then CGA. The first game in that post is Leisure Suit Larry, but what is the second one? Looks like a conversion of some long-forgotten Japanese classic. Pray, …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-12-16, 17:35

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I work in IT, broadly speaking, so I undertand the difference between Prod and Stage. 😀

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-12-11, 13:39

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You guys might be interested to hear that I've added a feature to DOSBox Staging that allows simulating the horiz/vert size monitor controls (among many other things). More details about the feature here: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/3124 So now you can stretch Hercules …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-18, 16:14

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I'm sure nobody cares, but my Tandon PC with Hercules graphics card and yellow monitor has come back from the repairs and it's working beautifully. I am very happy about it and just had to vent it. Sorry.

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-17, 09:16

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A few more. Prince of Persia title screen (to compare with the green one in Rincewind42's post): Filename 20180528_185538.jpg File size 1.42 MiB Views 1794 views Electro Body title screen: Filename 20180530_211511.jpg File size 1.56 MiB Views 1794 views Electro Body in-game: Filename 20180530_ …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-17, 09:05

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As promised, a bunch of various photos of Hercules monitor displaying things. Text mode: 20180528_184546.jpg Drakken game (note flat yellow areas, might be just poor photo quality, not sure): 20181010_195223.jpg Targhan game (loved it back then, still have a soft spot for it now - look how the sky …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-17, 08:53

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Everyone, thanks a lot for contributing, this is fascinating! (for me, at least) I have to say I stand corrected in the face of Viler arguments, namely that 86Box rendering is neither representative of the original look of the games. As for arguments raised by Rincewind42, I reluctantly agree in …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-16, 20:44

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Thank you very much, your input is indeed spot-on! As for your tool, I have bumped into it quite some time ago and watched various retro flavours with awe. You even got plasma right! Now, the real question is how difficult is it to use? Also, FFMPEG suggests to me application for movies, not still …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-16, 08:23

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Hey Rincewind42, First of all, kudos for the nickname - I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan myself - and thanks for taking time to contribute to this thread, both in writing and by providing screenshots - much appreciated! Secondly, you are correct in everything around aspect ratio and lazy port(s) on …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-14, 13:57

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You are supposed to use the monitor's hardwired vertical stretch knob to scale the game to the correct aspect ratio. I can get you a better photo if you want; I just happened to already have this one. Hi copper, I was asking more about emulation screenshot, as it is what they usually use. But if …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2023-10-13, 16:14

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Hey folks, sorry for resurrecting this old topic, but I need some help. I have written an article on various graphics cards, including Hercules for a certain retro mag in my home country. The trouble is, I can't get proper screenshots from Hercules and they seem to use the ones from the internet, …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2023-05-17, 07:49

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That is brilliant, thanks for sharing!

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2022-08-10, 12:47

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Anyone know if you can use the T5200C LCD display on a plasma T5200 and vice versa? The connector looks the same. First of all - brilliant nickname. Secondly, I can't help with your questions, as I do not have T5200 in either version now. However, I used to and want to share small interesting fact …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2022-07-01, 17:58

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By happy accident Ultima V was on sale on GOG today (still is, by the way). So, a quick and legal off-screen shot for you: Filename Ultima_V_on_Herc_AT.jpg File size 163.41 KiB Views 2002 views

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2022-06-30, 09:23

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I didn't see any mention of Ultima V here. Not only can it do CGA which looks good on a monochrome display, but it also has native Hercules monochrome support (the version you can get from gog.com will display the Hercules graphics without any special configuration if you set DOSBox to use Hercules …

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Re: DOSBOX on a GSYNC display - it's pretty great!

Posted on 2022-05-30, 09:24

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This sounds brilliant! I probably would like to add some CRT shader on top of it (something like this: https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dosbox-crt ), but that is only my personal preference. Otherwise, excellent use of new technology. It wouldn't even occur to me that this could be done. Appreciate …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2022-05-20, 13:23

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Thank you everyone for keeping this thread alive. Circumstances don't allow me to actively contribute these days, but I still hope I'll be able to add some screenshots and tidbits at some point.

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2021-08-30, 15:08

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@solraeck & Fenix77 - gentlemen, I know your intentions are good and indeed parts of the copyright system don't make sense, especially in the context of fast changes in IT world. Personally, I regret a little bit that this interferes with our efforts here, but I am not too surprised. However, we …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2021-08-23, 10:59

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I was able to find some time to dust off my Tandon machine with Hercules card and do some tinkering. The results are below: I confirm that Outrun runs on real hardware: HGC_Outrun.jpg Some copies on the internet are lacking required files for HGC and therefore don't run. Just download largest …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2021-08-18, 08:14

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I had nothing better to do today, so I was looking at all different CGA emulators/simulators. If you find others, please let me know. We might as well plaster them here too :D You're a magician, really! Thank you very much for your effort, it's incredible. I will check if I have anything else when …

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