Re: Manian Mansion VGA?

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From: Alai
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 19:54

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"Spliff Monkey" <lase...@mindless.com> wrote in message
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> > I can't tell ega from vga, but the version in DOTT is not the best one.
> > The one in Classic Lucasarts Adventures has better graphics.
> >
> > http://mansion.mixnmojo.com/english/versions.htm shows four versions.
> > The DOTT version looks like the first one, and the CLA version is the
> > second one.
>
> Wow. excellent info. that means I have the ega version with DOTT and
> Im gonna have to get the vga version somewhere else.

>From how I remembered, there were 2 versions of MM.  Earlier one was ega
version with lower resolution(160x100 or close), then the later one was vga,
which was indistinguishable from ega version, but had higher
resoltion(320x200).

I actually prefer the pixelated older version better :)

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From: "Alai" <ski...@minnesota.com>
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Subject: Re: Manian Mansion VGA?
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:54:28 -0800
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