Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades
Posted on 2023-05-17, 07:49
That is brilliant, thanks for sharing!
Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades
Posted on 2022-08-10, 12:47
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 …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2022-07-01, 17:58
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 603 views
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2022-06-30, 09:23
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 …
Re: DOSBOX on a GSYNC display - it's pretty great!
Posted on 2022-05-30, 09:24
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 …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2022-05-20, 13:23
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.
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-30, 15:08
@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 …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-23, 10:59
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 …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-18, 08:14
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 …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-17, 09:31
matze79 wrote on 2021-08-17, 09:23: Eye of Beholder 1 runs on CGA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVEeZK2AfnQ It certainly does, but sadly I was not able to emulate its CGA version on Hercules. Perhaps someone with more patience and skills will be able to make it work one day.
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-17, 09:18
Hello friends, I'm really glad that this thread continues. ^^ Hey Jo22, good to see you around still! Thanks for all the titles, I'll try to check at least some of them. Recently I have less time for my retro hobby, but Hercules has a special place in my heart and I really like this thread and …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-16, 20:11
here you are Thank you kindly! This is going to be very useful for anyone intending to emulate CGA on their Hercules cards. I appreciate it a lot! Look how beautiful hires monochrome on Mac looks: https://youtu.be/YicfqCx5m-k Beside that Atari-ST monochrome is also great too if it's really hires …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-16, 14:44
Getting some great ideas for stuff to try on my PC-4600, though that suffers from massive blur issues. It does have CGA, but appears to support Herc as well. I wonder actually if CGA simulation in Herc mode would give better displays in some instances, since default it doesn't seem to greyscale or …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-08-16, 09:03
I wrote a loader that fixes the hercules option in OUTRUN here Brilliant, thank you very much! You're awesome. I will give this version a test ride on real Hercules hardware when I have a moment (might be until weekend) and post photos here. This is a good thread to collect everything hercules :D …
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2021-01-29, 12:46
Could someone try this on 386? I used to play Doom on 386DX 40MHz ca. 93-94 and it was smooth enough that I do not remember any stuttering or slowdowns. However, when looking on the internet these days, it seems barely playable on 386. Either my memory is seriously failing me or there 's some other …
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2021-01-28, 16:08
Could someone try this on 386? I used to play Doom on 386DX 40MHz ca. 93-94 and it was smooth enough that I do not remember any stuttering or slowdowns. However, when looking on the internet these days, it seems barely playable on 386. Either my memory is seriously failing me or there 's some other …
Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades
Posted on 2021-01-25, 13:17
so cool , what version of 3.1 are u using ? can you upload a image of it to archive.com or here.... All I tested wont start... only win 2.03... that is it.... says not enough memory? (may be a memory problem , may need to load expanded memory? it seem to find 64k High Memory area available... (bios …
Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades
Posted on 2021-01-21, 09:14
Any EGA or VGA games are out of the realm of possibilities on this machine, no? (I should not w8st time testing them... right?) EGA and VGA - nope. But there's plenty of CGA games and some actually look well on monochrome screens - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=56507 (one of my …
Re: DEC HiNote Ultra CT475 - A 486 "Ultrabook"!
Posted on 2020-11-19, 10:48
I'm so jealous. I would like one. Alas! Very hard to find.
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2020-10-27, 08:34
Please do not post links to pirated software. Duly noted. My apologies, they had images that I was to lazy to copy here. In other news, here is interesting case of a CGA game totally relevant to this thread - Rockford . Its creators didn't care about the colour mode, but focused on "how is it going …
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