Subj : Re: Lemmings game for DOS
To   : hollowone
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Oct 31 2023 14:59:45

  Re: Re: Lemmings game for DOS
  By: hollowone to Nightfox on Tue Oct 31 2023 02:03 pm

 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 tried
 Ni>> running it in DOSemu.  I've never played the Amiga version.  But maybe an
 Ni>> Amiga emulator with Lemmings would be worth checking into, out of
 Ni>> curiosity.

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

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

I remember EGA offering 16 colors and VGA offering up to 256 colors.  At the time I thought the DOS VGA version looked pretty good.  I wanted to play that version because that's what I used to always play, so ideally I'd like to find a way to play it (in an emulated DOS environment) where the colors aren't messed up.  But I have heard the Amiga was for video and audio, at least until the early-mid 90s.

Nightfox
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