It’s Friday, and seeing you’re reading this instead of doing anything worthwhile, what better time to jump on the nostalgia train? A few years back, our very own elTee made this little video, featuring LeChuck’s Revenge in EGA and internal speaker mode.
Largo’s theme is particularly trippy . . .
elTee is in the middle of writing up a larger article on his adventures with the floppy version of Monkey Island 2, so stay tuned!
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AdamNorwood
IIRC the artwork for SOMI was originally made for the EGA version, and then they hired extra artists to later crank out the VGA 256-color version? Or am I dreaming that? Not sure if Monkey Island 2 went that route, but it looks like they just dithered down the VGA art?
You're right on both counts I believe
Although I just realised, you can make it play the VGA version of MI1 in EGA mode and that way, it dithers down the VGA (because the true EGA version is a different bunch of files altogether)
AdamNorwood
IIRC the artwork for SOMI was originally made for the EGA version, and then they hired extra artists to later crank out the VGA 256-color version? Or am I dreaming that? Not sure if Monkey Island 2 went that route, but it looks like they just dithered down the VGA art?
You're right on both counts I believe
IIRC the artwork for SOMI was originally made for the EGA version, and then they hired extra artists to later crank out the VGA 256-color version? Or am I dreaming that? Not sure if Monkey Island 2 went that route, but it looks like they just dithered down the VGA art?
I can't believe I've de-lurked after 20-ish years reading this site just to talk about old graphics adapter modes…
Laserschwert
Is that really EGA though? To me it looks like horizontal resolution is now 640 pixels, so that one VGA pixel could become two pixels side by side to allow for dithering. Was EGA really higher res than VGA?
It's some emulated EGA mode, I think. The artwork is definitely the same file as the VGA art, it just displays it differently