Re: ega games

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From: Colin Blair Coghill
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:23

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In <79615@ut-emx.uucp> baylor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Baylor) writes:

>	Besides the installed base, is there any reason why games like
>Keen are written in ega (asuuming vga is easier to program in)?

I would assume that this is partly to allow as many people as possible
to run the game. There are still a lot of people out here with only EGA
and I would think that it is not worth losing a fair part of the
potential market just to get a few more colours on screen.

Sure, if the game is *much* better in 256 colours, use VGA, but if it
is only a slight improvement, I personally would use EGA.
(nothing to do with the fact that I only have EGA of course)

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