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Colours in Monuments of Mars are all wrong on my EGA computer

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First post, by jarreboum

Posted on 2021-08-21, 09:14

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The computer is a 386sx-16 with an EGA card and display. So far it's the only game to have such a problem.

Monuments of Mars normally uses the orange-green-red-black palette. But on this computer, the palette is pink-cyan-grey-black?

Actually, if you Google images search for"Monuments of Mars Apogee", you will find both types of screenshots.

I also have a Tandy computer, in which the same copy of the game displays the proper orange colours. The game files come from 3drealms FTP.

Any idea what could be the problem? I tried with and without loading DOS EGA drivers (without config.sys nor autoexec.bat) and it didn't change.

Reply 1 of 4, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2021-08-21, 14:07

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This game uses CGA and EGA isn't register compatible with CGA.

For VGA-compatible cards there's a workaround to this problem. I don't know if a real EGA card works with this.

Does the EGA card has a CGA-compatible "driver"?

Reply 2 of 4, by Jo22

Posted on 2021-08-21, 16:03

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Reminds me of Pharao's Tomb.

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Reply 3 of 4, by jarreboum

Posted on 2021-08-21, 19:50

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ha, yes indeed! I was about to say I tried with Arctic Adventure, but obviously the palette was already correct with this one.

However I did find a workaround, thanks to your replies: my card, an EG-3000, has its floppies archived online, and amongst various utilities there's a CGA.COM to switch to proper CGA operations. With it loaded, the colours and everything are working fine in the game, the palette switches properly between the main menu and the levels.

Thanks!

Reply 4 of 4, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2021-08-21, 19:53

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You're welcome!

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