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Post-Windows 95 games with less than 256 color mode?

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First post, by BEEN_Nath_58

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256 color games existed in the DOS era, but I don't recall seeing any such in the Post-Windows 95 era. I would be intrigued to see if such a game existed in that era and how it played, considering 3D accelerated 9x usually had as low as 256 color support.

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Reply 2 of 7, by Jo22

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Windows 3.1x games? Some were using 236c, but many just 16c. I'm thinking of shareware/freeware, mainly.

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Reply 4 of 7, by BEEN_Nath_58

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jakethompson1 wrote on 2023-08-19, 06:08:

If you count them, all the Windows Entertainment Pack games...

Jo22 wrote on 2023-08-19, 06:14:

Windows 3.1x games? Some were using 236c, but many just 16c. I'm thinking of shareware/freeware, mainly.

leileilol wrote on 2023-08-19, 09:48:

Many of the Sierra SCI games for Windows 3.1 already had 16-color dithered fallbacks

Bad thread title, I should have mentioned "post Win95"

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Reply 5 of 7, by Jo22

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2023-08-19, 12:21:

Bad thread title, I should have mentioned "post Win95"

Nah, never mind. I had experienced this back in the 90s.
A friend from school was asking me if I could borrow him one of my games, "Mario Kart".
So I brought him my cassette of "Mario Kart", for Super Nintendo, of course.
Turned out he meant "Mario Kart 64", but he didn't say so.

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Jo22 wrote on 2023-08-19, 15:29:
Nah, never mind. I had experienced this back in the 90s. A friend from school was asking me if I could borrow him one of my game […]
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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2023-08-19, 12:21:

Bad thread title, I should have mentioned "post Win95"

Nah, never mind. I had experienced this back in the 90s.
A friend from school was asking me if I could borrow him one of my games, "Mario Kart".
So I brought him my cassette of "Mario Kart", for Super Nintendo, of course.
Turned out he meant "Mario Kart 64", but he didn't say so.

Yup, I used pre Win95 so seldom that I often forget to disregard that in my statements. Same happens when I talk of WinNT (and that I want to disregard Win2K and older).

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Reply 7 of 7, by Meatball

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You'll see 256 colors used in software 3d acceleration of the time. I have a list of games in this thread below. If you see any errors or adds, please feel free to let me know and I'll update.

List of Windows & DOS Games with Color Mode Depths with 8bit, 15bit, & 16bit only

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