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HighretrogamelordHRGL89@mas.to
2025-06-17

Caesar III for PC

youtu.be/ushL3tS1b6g?si=8ENuIs

#CaesarIII #Caesar3 #PC #Windows #Windows95 #Windows98 #Strategy #Simulation #Management #CityBuilder #Citybuilding #Rome #AncientRome #SierraOnLine #Sierra #ImpressionsGames

HighretrogamelordHRGL89@mas.to
2025-06-16

Caesar II for PC

youtu.be/14GtZQrF1qY?si=31yQWO

#CaesarII #Caesar2 #PC #Windows #Windows95 #Citybuilding #Citybuilder #Simulation #Rome #AncientRome #Strategy #SierraOnLine #Sierra #ImpressionsGames

vga256vga256@dialup.cafe
2025-06-16

sometimes, sierra on-line artists could be *really* on their game when it came to rendering 256 colour backgrounds in deluxepaint

this particular background from Police Quest 3 was likely hand painted on traditional media, scanned in, and then touched up in dpaint

i usually use this scene as an example of an interesting cinematic high-angle rarely seen in games, but today i thought i'd focus on the anti-aliasing. aliasing or "jaggies" occur when a high-res image is resampled to a much lower resolution - and only get worse as the resolution decreases. you can imagine how much resolution loss there was, going from a physical painting, to a 320x200 image. jaggies galore. it probably looked like a mess when it first came out of the scanner.

this is why the additional touch-up step in dpaint was so important. artists had the chance to iron out jaggies by blending neighbouring colours into more pleasant (smoother) patterns, so harsh lines wouldn't stand out so much

handcrafted AA became a lost art in the mid-90s, when photoshop made layers and transparency ubiquitous. today, you can blend an object into the background using opacity sliders, or using a blending tool.

but in 1992 when this game would have been painted, the palette was limited to 256 colours with *no* transparency or automatic blending available. artists had to build "ramps" or tiny incremental palettes of similar colours, and then use those to smooth out the hard lines.

i've zoomed in on the destroyed car so you can see the anti-aliasing approach this artist used. it's still jaggy, but jaggy in a pleasant, relaxing manner. compare it to the white car in the bottom right corner, which has had no AA drawn, and is harsh and unpleasant to look at, "popping" off of the background like a bad copy + paste job.

i love that game art of the early 90s was a mix of traditional colour-mixing knowledge, and intensely delicate pixel art. someone zoomed in to 800% to work on the back end of that car for an hour, just to provide you with a stronger sense of realism.

it is interesting to me that while you could try to replicate this scene using transparency today (and a 16M colour palette) - you'd end up with something far less pleasant, and less cohesive for the eye. using such a compressed palette of 256 colours forced colour coherence and holism into the process. if you only have 6 shades of white to work with, it can make things *easier* for the eye to read.

#adventureGames #pixelArt #sierraOnline

A screenshot from Police Quest 3: the Kindred, showing a scene of an alley. The scene has been painted at a high angle, looking down from above a street lamp, down on an old dangerous urban alley. A broken down rusting car is in the distance. The writer has zoomed in on a section of the broken down car, to show how jaggy parts of the car's body have been smoothed over using blocks of similar colours.
DesertFOXdfx@techhub.social
2025-06-15

Back in 1986 / '87, when I personally was still in Kindergarten, Two Guy from Andromeda created a fantastic graphic adventure game called "Space Quest". It became an instant hit and spawned several sequels.

Here's the original "Space Quest - Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter", Version 1.2 for Commodore Amiga. Including full KryoFlux streams, CT RAW and ADF disk images. Have fun!

archive.org/details/sq1_amiga

#RetroGaming #RetroGames #Amiga #SierraOnline #SpaceQuest #GraphicAdventure #CopyProtection #KryoFlux #FloppyDisk

Space Quest - Episode I for Commodore Amiga, Version 1.2
Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-14

Sierra Saturday: Let's Play Conquests of Camelot - Ep.2 - Hagiography lesson
youtube.com/watch?v=AeYGqnYuEf

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-14

Sierra Saturday: Let's Play Conquests of Camelot - Ep.1 - Cucked so hard all the crops died
youtube.com/watch?v=yqNn3ZFjjG

TurianShepardTurianShepard
2025-06-13

What it feels like living in London at the moment! ☀️

- From Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon

Screenshot of the volcanic planet Ortega in Space Quest 3
Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-10

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 10): The Gem of Air and the Church
youtube.com/watch?v=EA-52gWZV9

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-10

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 9): The Cloud Spirit's Tests
youtube.com/watch?v=mlDs0z5IF6

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-09

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 8): The Enchanter's Cave
youtube.com/watch?v=UG9TWKjOom

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-09

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 7): Hagatha's Cave and the Antiques Store
youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6ssJNrU3

Zweiter Detektivcoolowt
2025-06-08

Blue Force (1993) by Tsunami - former Sierra Police Quest staff worked on this, as they didn't agree to the direction the PQ series was taking. Good police game à la Police Quest, however, technically better 👍

Blue Force title screen
Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-08

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 6): The Gem of Water
youtube.com/watch?v=rVhSN6AgKp

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-08

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 5): Neptune's Trident
youtube.com/watch?v=ybPiD6KTck

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-07

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 4): Sharkee Territory
youtube.com/watch?v=ehrEbvptREg

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-07

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 3): The Mermaid Comb
youtube.com/watch?v=mWYHc2ZAYJE

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-06

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 2): Possum and Pumpkins
youtube.com/watch?v=hEJap7OB0N

Tom Servo #FuckTrumpangelus_04
2025-06-06

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Part 1): The Door of Destiny
youtube.com/watch?v=Y_RA47YWLW

Torbjörn Anderssonet_andersson@idlethumbs.social
2025-06-03

ScummVM developer
noun

Someone who owns several versions of a game that he's never even gotten around to playing, yet is still miffed that there exists at least one more version that he doesn't have.

#ScummVM #SierraOnline #Retrogaming

Four different versions of the title screen for Sierra's game Mixed-Up Mother Goose. They are the AGI version and SCI version included with the Roberta Williams anthology, and two deluxe versions. I'm not sure what the difference between the deluxe versions are, except that one includes two more languages than the other hand has a different title screen. In addition to these, there is an older SCI version that - from the screenshots I've seen - looks a lot like the AGI version but with higher resolution.
DesertFOXdfx@techhub.social
2025-06-02

Well, considering this is my very first physical Amiga diskette with a full-on copy protection, everything went way better than expected. Easy peasy!

I managed to extract a perfect KryoFlux stream from the protected disk and its copy protection tracks! Also, the resulting "CT RAW" disk image plays perfectly fine in the latest WinUAE Amiga emulator. Great success! 😜

Have fun:
archive.org/details/ll1_amiga
archive.org/details/ll1_amiga_

#LeisureSuitLarry #SierraOnline #Amiga #WinUAE #emulation #RetroGaming #RetroGames #KryoFlux #InternetArchive #FloppyDisk #CopyProtection

A perfect KryoFlux dump with zero errors!Leisure Suit Larry for the Amiga, the floppy diskLeisure Suit Larry for the Amiga, screenshot

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