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Kurufinwe · 12-05-2005, 10:58 PM

As far as I understand, when there were two versions sold separately (the early VGA games), Sierra took the time to convert the screens to 16-colour (which possibly meant quite a lot of work to make them look not too bad); of course, that meant selling two different versions (or the game would have been almost twice the size).

But for later games, when almost nobody used EGA anymore, they just put VGA graphics and an EGA driver that did a quick and dirty 16 colour conversion. If you try launching LB2 with the EGA driver, you'll probably see that the graphics look much uglier than what they do in the Sierra-made EGA conversions that ATMachine posted.

12-05-2005, 10:58 PM	#3
Kurufinwe Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 3,038	As far as I understand, when there were two versions sold separately (the early VGA games), Sierra took the time to convert the screens to 16-colour (which possibly meant quite a lot of work to make them look not too bad); of course, that meant selling two different versions (or the game would have been almost twice the size). But for later games, when almost nobody used EGA anymore, they just put VGA graphics and an EGA driver that did a quick and dirty 16 colour conversion. If you try launching LB2 with the EGA driver, you'll probably see that the graphics look much uglier than what they do in the Sierra-made EGA conversions that ATMachine posted. __________________ Currently reading: Dune (F. Herbert) Recently finished: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling) [++], La Nuit des Temps (R. Barjavel) [+++] Currently playing: Skyrim Recently finished: MCF: Escape from Ravenhearst [+], The Walking Dead, ep. 1 [+++], Gray Matter [++]