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The details are foggy, but Loom in particular had some way to be playable on monochrome graphics, perhaps with some kind of CGA emulator. I have vivid memories
by tonyarkles 6y ago
The details are foggy, but Loom in particular had some way to be playable on monochrome graphics, perhaps with some kind of CGA emulator. I have vivid memories of playing through this game on my Compaq XT clone in black-and-yellow with no mouse. Similar time frame; my family got the machine around 93-94 on a pretty low budget, but I learned a TON on it until we managed to buy a Pentium 133 a few years later.
- trm42 6y agoI remember playing some CGA games with some Hercules graphics card. There was two TSR programs which made it possible to run CGA color games with the yellow-on-black Hercules display. Can't remember the name of the other one but one of them was definitively SIMCGA [https://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/SIMCGA41.ZIP/INFO/ https://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/SIMCGA41.ZIP/INFO/] Without that awesome program my childhood would've been a lot less intresting.
- tonyarkles 6y agoSolid memory! It was definitely SIMCGA that I had and it worked awesome. Thanks for the nostalgia hit!
- Zardoz84 6y agoI remember playing some Spiderman game for PC with ega graphics (or at least had a 16 color palette) on the 286 of my father with monochrome (Hercules ?) display.