[HN Gopher] The Colonel's Bequest - Case Cracked (2020)
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       The Colonel's Bequest - Case Cracked (2020)
        
       Author : homarp
       Score  : 73 points
       Date   : 2023-08-29 20:13 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.benshoof.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.benshoof.org)
        
       | distantsounds wrote:
       | Such a hidden gem in Sierra's library. good whodunit mysteries
       | are few and far between in the realm of video games.
        
       | emblaegh wrote:
       | There's an excellent OneShortEye video on the subject, who cites
       | this work.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2budy3S3MA
        
       | fullstop wrote:
       | I always enjoy this sort of thing, especially regarding games
       | from my childhood. Thanks, OP!
        
       | twoodfin wrote:
       | It warms my heart that to see this much excitement and community
       | around arguably the most interesting adventure game of that era.
       | 
       | CB was also the motivation for my first "hack": The game's CGA
       | driver was built custom to produce black and white graphics. I
       | was gleeful to discover that copying a CGA driver from another
       | contemporary SCI game produced reasonable four-color rendering.
        
         | Steuard wrote:
         | Ha! Cool! I wasn't the only one!
         | 
         | But honestly, I eventually concluded that with the resolution
         | available on my CGA monitor, the (slightly) higher-resolution
         | black and white version was probably a better choice (and it
         | gave the game a bit of a noir air).
        
           | tpmx wrote:
           | I wish I would have had this special driver for the 16-color
           | CGA mode (!) on the Amstrad PC1512 back then:
           | 
           | https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=75497
        
             | twoodfin wrote:
             | What killed me is that I had an ATI Graphics Solution that
             | could do Plantronics modes[1]. Even came with a demo disk
             | showing off the glorious 16 colors. Took 30+ years but
             | someone finally wrote a Sierra driver for it[2]!
             | 
             | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantronics_Colorplus
             | 
             | [2] https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=75877
        
               | tpmx wrote:
               | We should probably both have gotten Amigas instead.
        
       | Agingcoder wrote:
       | The 75 to EB immediately screamed of copy protection. However ,
       | the other ramifications were unexpected, resulting in a very
       | interesting read.
       | 
       | Congrats for finding this, and thanks for posting.
        
       | glonq wrote:
       | Wow, impressive sleuthing!
       | 
       | My dad and I loved text adventures and Sierra-style games, so we
       | actually bought this game legit and so never experienced the bugs
       | in the cracked release.
        
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