Re: Manian Mansion VGA?

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From: Jenny100
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:46

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"Alai" <ski...@minnesota.com> wrote in message
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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 :)

Why? Did it contain something the newer version omitted?

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