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I remember that I was playing the DOS version of PoP on a computer with Hercules Graphics Card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card https://en.

I remember that I was playing the DOS version of PoP on a computer with Hercules Graphics Card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card) so I suppose the DOS version also supported Hercules (beyond CGA/EGA/VGA). The music, even though was playing from the PC beep speaker haunts me to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcI8lQvX8Ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcI8lQvX8Ng Finally, after all these years I still remember running it with "prince megahit" to enable cheat mode so I'd be able to pass the levels using ctrl+l...

wowczarek 1y ago
prince megahit! Now that takes me back, way back!
m000 1y ago
> I suppose the DOS version also supported Hercules (beyond CGA/EGA/VGA). IIRC, Hercules cards were more pro-oriented (monochrome graphics, but higher resolution than their contemporaries), so I doubt anyone would bother to make a game port specifically for them. If you ran the game on a Hercules, most likely it was the CGA version run on top of a CGA simulator [1]. [1] https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php
- spapas82 1y ago
  I don't remember having such a CGA simulator. I suppose it would be a TSR program that I needed to run before prince, but definitely I wasn't doing that. From some research it seems that hercules was actually supported: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/getting-started/enhancing-prince-of-persia/#hercules https://www.dosbox-staging.org/getting-started/enhancing-pri... and from https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Games/game_prince.php https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Games/game_prince.php > Intel 8088/8086 CPU, 512 KB of RAM (640 KB for MCGA/VGA version) Graphics support for Hercules, CGA, Tandy/PCjr, EGA and MCGA/VGA (320 x 200 max. resolution in 256 colours) Notice that PoP was one of the few games I was able to play with that hercules monitor :|
  - m000 1y ago
    It seems you're right. I vaguely remember using simcga on a friend's PC (where we also played PoP) but I can't recall for which game. Given that the PC version of PoP was launched in 1990 and CGA simulators existed since 1986, I would guess that even embedding the simulator to the game, so that it works out of the box, would have been a viable option.
  - ciupicri 1y ago
    I also played it on a PC with Hercules too and I don't remember having to resort to an emulator or any other program.
- Narishma 1y ago
  The game directly supports Hercules [1]. Plenty of games did back then, 500+ according to Mobygames [2]. [1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/196/prince-of-persia/specs/dos/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/196/prince-of-persia/specs/do... [2] https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/4/ https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/4/

wowczarek 1y ago

prince megahit! Now that takes me back, way back!

m000 1y ago

> I suppose the DOS version also supported Hercules (beyond CGA/EGA/VGA). IIRC, Hercules cards were more pro-oriented (monochrome graphics, but higher resolution than their contemporaries), so I doubt anyone would bother to make a game port specifically for them. If you ran the game on a Hercules, most likely it was the CGA version run on top of a CGA simulator [1]. [1] https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php

spapas82 1y ago
I don't remember having such a CGA simulator. I suppose it would be a TSR program that I needed to run before prince, but definitely I wasn't doing that. From some research it seems that hercules was actually supported: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/getting-started/enhancing-prince-of-persia/#hercules https://www.dosbox-staging.org/getting-started/enhancing-pri... and from https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Games/game_prince.php https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Games/game_prince.php > Intel 8088/8086 CPU, 512 KB of RAM (640 KB for MCGA/VGA version) Graphics support for Hercules, CGA, Tandy/PCjr, EGA and MCGA/VGA (320 x 200 max. resolution in 256 colours) Notice that PoP was one of the few games I was able to play with that hercules monitor :|
- m000 1y ago
  It seems you're right. I vaguely remember using simcga on a friend's PC (where we also played PoP) but I can't recall for which game. Given that the PC version of PoP was launched in 1990 and CGA simulators existed since 1986, I would guess that even embedding the simulator to the game, so that it works out of the box, would have been a viable option.
- ciupicri 1y ago
  I also played it on a PC with Hercules too and I don't remember having to resort to an emulator or any other program.
Narishma 1y ago
The game directly supports Hercules [1]. Plenty of games did back then, 500+ according to Mobygames [2]. [1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/196/prince-of-persia/specs/dos/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/196/prince-of-persia/specs/do... [2] https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/4/ https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/4/