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On what platform can I play 11th Hour (sequel to 7th Guest). #asknostr

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YODL 1y ago

Blast from the past

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jimbocoin πŸƒ 1y ago

My old 386 wasn’t powerful enough to play it in color, so I had to play it entirely in spooky monochrome. πŸ‘»πŸ”¦

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α΄›Κœα΄‡ α΄…α΄‡α΄€α΄›Κœ ᴏꜰ α΄ΚŸα΄‡α΄‹α΄œ 1y ago

nah, that's just the monitor... CGA was mono on a mono monitor but otherwise it was ugly black, cyan, red and i forget what colour, blue maybe, been quite some time since i saw CGA... CGA was the beginning of the adoption of color monitors, so many people first saw it on mono

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α΄›Κœα΄‡ α΄…α΄‡α΄€α΄›Κœ ᴏꜰ α΄ΚŸα΄‡α΄‹α΄œ 1y ago

yeah, it was literally CMYK (magenta, cyan, yellow, black)

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α΄›Κœα΄‡ α΄…α΄‡α΄€α΄›Κœ ᴏꜰ α΄ΚŸα΄‡α΄‹α΄œ 1y ago

ok, white, magenta, cyan, black...

some more examples of this typical CGA display from those days (late 80s) https://www.mobygames.com/game/16195/galactic-conqueror/screenshots/dos/1064275/

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jimbocoin πŸƒ 1y ago

My monitor was definitely capable of RGB. Windows 3.1.1 worked, full color in MS Paint, etc.

This was like 25+ years ago, so I don’t remember the details. Just that when I tried to play it in full color it was garbled and choppy. Monochrome worked though.

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α΄›Κœα΄‡ α΄…α΄‡α΄€α΄›Κœ ᴏꜰ α΄ΚŸα΄‡α΄‹α΄œ 1y ago

oh, CGA also had the original mono mode with twice the horizontal resolution, i forget what the original mono mode was called

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α΄›Κœα΄‡ α΄…α΄‡α΄€α΄›Κœ ᴏꜰ α΄ΚŸα΄‡α΄‹α΄œ 1y ago

and yes, it literally would have been one pixel on one pixel off ind opposite order for the purple and cyan, i remember this...

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YODL 1y ago

7th guest was cool, though I had to cheat to solve a lot of the puzzles (I was quite young). Not sure if I ever got around to trying sequel. Shyly spryly...