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10491342

Anonymous Fri Dec 8 23:55:14 2023 No.10491342 [Reply] [Original]

Welcome to 57k of CGA goodness (badness?) Enjoy your stay.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 00:00:12 2023 No.10491356 >>10491342 That palette is so much better than the cyan/magenta one it's not even funny.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 15:52:28 2023 No.10492974 I've spent a lot of time playing this exact version of Digger or whatever it's called on Amiga. Prospector, I think. That one was the original.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 20:18:41 2023 No.10493485 The original booter version only worked on CGA cards, there was a DOS update from '86 that fixed this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 9 22:06:05 2023 No.10493787 colorblind tests are getting ridiculous

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 00:20:53 2023 No.10494143 >>10492974 Theyre all clones or Mr Do!. I also did play this specific version, albeit at the wrong speed. way faster. way more fun.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 00:24:25 2023 No.10494151 >>10493485 It programs the CGA registers directly for performance reasons and because Windmill Software wanted to show that they were l33t hax0rs.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 00:26:59 2023 No.10494154 >>10494151 if you actually played these games on a real 8088 PC you would see why they did it, because the BIOS functions are really fucking slow.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 10 00:41:44 2023 No.10494178 >>10491342 So they used "Popcorn" in this which was an instrumental hit from the early 70s and somehow never got in copyright trouble for it.