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Originally Posted by Kurufinwe
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.
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You're right. Any game that says "VGA and EGA" on its box is one that shipped with the special EGA driver to convert VGA graphics "on the fly." Whereas ones that say "EGA (VGA sold separately)" are the only genuine Sierra EGA conversions of VGA games.
So it'd be pretty useless to take EGA shots of PQ1VGA and LB2, Fov. Incidentally, the EGA "quick conversion" driver that shipped with these games stretches the resolution to 640x400... but it's still uglier than the normal VGA driver.
