Darkseed (1992) runs in 640x350 16 colours due to H. R. Giger's demand. Quite unusual for an adventure game at the time. Still looks great for today's standards.
weird this was bumped for the usual 640x480 modes. SVGA640 was becoming mainstream by 94. This thread had more extreme examples at the first page
How about this?
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keenmaster486 wrote on 2020-07-12, 00:10:How about this?
this one goes here:
Hi-res "zoom out" games list
Yes I agree.
leileilol wrote on 2020-07-11, 23:56:weird this was bumped for the usual 640x480 modes. SVGA640 was becoming mainstream by 94. This thread had more extreme examples at the first page
Interestingly I remember the graphic mode description from the original wfw3.11 Standard Video drivers:
640x480x16colors = VGA (ok with 256kb Video RAM)
640x480x256colors = SVGA (from 512kb Video RAM)
800x600x16colors= SVGA (ok with 256kb Video RAM)
1) VLSI SCAMP 311 | 386SX25@TI486SXLC2-50@63 | 16MB | CL-GD5428 | CT2830| SCC-1 | MT32 | WDC160GB/7200/8MB | Fast-SCSI AHA 1542CF + BlueSCSI v2/15k U320
2) SIS486 | 486DX/2 66(@80) | 32MB | TGUI9440 | LAPC-I
Sim city 2000 used 640x480 in 1993
Sim Earth, 1990, used 640x480 standard VGA
filipetolhuizen wrote on 2020-07-11, 22:09:Darkseed (1992) runs in 640x350 16 colours due to H. R. Giger's demand. Quite unusual for an adventure game at the time. Still looks great for today's standards.
To me early is everything DOS before 1994, so EGA Hi Res and VGA-16 color are most likely suspects, after Windows 95 it’s sort of moot
https://www.reddit.com/r/dosgaming/comments/5 … ires_ega_games/
Oh and Line Wars 2...
640x480x256 for VESA compatible cards
800x600x256 using S3 and ATI acceleration
