Subj : Re: Lemmings game for DOS
To   : Nightfox
From : hollowone
Date : Tue Oct 31 2023 14:03:04

 Ni> This is just about the DOS version - I played it on an actual DOS PC in
 Ni> the early 90s and I remember it looking better than it looks when I
 Ni> tried running it in DOSemu.  I've never played the Amiga version.  But
 Ni> maybe an Amiga emulator with Lemmings would be worth checking into, out
 Ni> of curiosity.
 Ni> 

Please do, on Amiga both hires (640x256) and lowres (320x256) supported up to 32 indexed colors out of what MCGA (More 13h) could offer in the PC VGA world.

In the PC all the hi-res stuff (640x480) had only 16 colors in fixed palette + HW hacking so what I remember was stuff visually very... dithered comparing to colors of Amiga version. But both are blurred childhood memories, maybe I also should launch both side by side to compare.

But where Amiga for sure excelled in the prime time era of the game is audio. 4channel digitalized audio Amiga offered out of the box started matching slightly with Sounds Blaster and GUS, but that became mainstream right after C= collapsed in 94. In 90-92 when Lemmings were born, audio on Amiga was superior to anything in home computing and you should still hear that. Unless emulators channel audio data streams to modern HW equally as a part of their implementation.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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