New looks better.

newCGA.png maybe looks a little bit better overall, though I like the orange/yellow decorations in oldCGA.png more.

You're using mode 6 with color 15, right? in that situation there's only a 13-degree hue difference between "old" and "new" CGA cards (as we've found in that thread), so I don't know if the choice of colors has to be so different between the two.

if you want to add an "old school" element to the game, them you could show a hue adjustment screen at startup, like MS Decathlon and that golf game - "Please adjust your hue settings until the colors displayed below match the descriptions", etc. Which DOSBox users can easily do with (alt)-F11. 😉

New

Both have issues, for instance the blue creeping into the yellow of the banners. That seems a bit worse in the new image than the old, but I'm guessing that could be rectified with more careful pattern choices.

Interested in your reasoning to support composite CGA in a world where VGA is 25 years old.

Here all the colours available on composite cga.

In colour 7, it's a light blue in old composite while the new one the colour iturned into a kind of purple.

Colour 4 is a dark purple on old but it's dark red closer but still dark purple on new. I like it.

The yellow in old became yellow-greenish in new.

I worked on my game today. The new cga looks nicer to me.

kolano wrote:

Interested in your reasoning to support composite CGA in a world where VGA is 25 years old.

can't speak for nikiniki, but some people like a good "retrochallenge" (the fact that there's an annual contest with that title says something).

nikiniki wrote:

I worked on my game today. The new cga looks nicer to me.

Agreed, those brick tiles are better-looking now.

nikiniki wrote:

I worked on my game today. The new cga looks nicer to me.

Looks like Atari 7800 quality, which is ironic since you also posted this on AtariAge...

Looks like CGA Ultima to me.