Reply 20 of 24, by HunterZ
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wrote:pc lemmings uses only 16 colors, with 16 colors coming from the 262144 colors of the vga if you select the vga version.
Got it with my soundblaster 2.0 together with indy car racing, kinda stupid since both games only use the opl2 chip of the soundblaster and not the digital sound capabilities 😀
I got those two games with my SB 2.0 as well 😁 Lemmings was on a white 720K 3.5" copy-protected disk, which meant I couldn't play it for a long time because I originally had a 286 with only 5.25" drives (I had to send a letter to Creative to even get 5.25" driver disks for the sound card)... My brother and I played the crap out of the Indy 500 game (Electronic Arts I believe).
I never realized that they didn't show off the features of the card well - that's a good point. I think that happens a lot with bundled software even today though... Probably has more to do with companies trying to sell hardware on the popularity of the games than with showing it off.
Originally posted by Nicht Sehr Gut
I figured as such. 16-Color VGA always struck me as odd. Other than for the sake of convience, why would you use it? You would still need a VGA monitor to replace the EGA model (anybody here remember EGA monitors?).
Well I think that with EGA you had at most maybe 64 colours to choose from to map to each of the 16 that could be on the screen at once. With 16-colour VGA you had a lot more (as Harekiet mentioned). Also, VGA was probably better for things like scrolling (not sure though). I seem to remember trying both the EGA and VGA versions of Lemmings and the VGA version was noticably better (but just barely)
I used to have an EGA monitor and video card in my 286, but someone set a printer on top of it and it overheated. We had to use a Hercules monochrome setup for a couple of years (anyone remember SIMCGA? 🤣) until my dad broke down and got an SVGA card (hello Moraff!).
Originally posted by Nicht Sehr Gut
BTW, does anyone know if the intro animation with the air balloon was on any of the PC versions? My floppy and CD versions didn't have it (bizarre..as it easily fit onto the Amiga floppy version).
I'm not sure I've seen it but I'm almost positive that it's not in the DOS floppy version. The DOS version was on a 720KB floppy - how big was the Amiga floppy version?