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Oh very cool. That was eye opening. I have been running that demo occasionally since I happen to have my first computer, an original IBM PC with CGA card, stand
by drivers99 11y ago
Oh very cool. That was eye opening. I have been running that demo occasionally since I happen to have my first computer, an original IBM PC with CGA card, standard PC beeper/speaker, (and no monitor, but this demo uses NTSC to a TV anyway!)
Fortunately I also had modem software (Telix) on the PC's 20MB hard drive so I could copy the demo over a null modem cable with Zmodem protocol, from a win2k box that also had a serial port, USB port, and hyperterm on it! And I had pkunzip on it already as well to unzip the file. It was so slow! I forgot how it was slow just to unzip files back then. (And to get the file onto THAT computer I had to put it on a USB stick from my windows 7 box because it's the one with wifi and USB but no RS-232 serial port.)
Now I get why the demo sometimes comes out in black and white when it tries to do 1024 colors. Somehow it's not triggering the "color burst" correctly.
Old story: I was excited the first time I realized flight simulator 3 could show more colors (blue sky, green grass) if I selected the right mode and hooked it up to a TV. Same for old Sierra games like King's Quest: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7UB9CRMyE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7UB9CRMyE