Wonderland (1990) 800x600

Malik wrote:

Errmmm...how about Comanche Maximum Overkill (1992)? It supports SVGA 640x480 high res.

I wish... Pretty sure comanche does not go beyond 320x200.

Duke Nukem 3D and Blood/Shadow warrior/Redneck Rampage supported up to VESA 1600x1200 IIRC.

TIE Fighter Collectors Edition for DOS does 640x480, very nice, but 1995 already.

gerwin wrote:

Duke Nukem 3D and Blood/Shadow warrior/Redneck Rampage supported up to VESA 1600x1200 IIRC.

One of the fun things about Ken Silverman's BUILD Engine is that it actually supported just about every VESA or Mode-X resolution you could throw at it. I once spent hours just trying out different combinations of Mode-X resolutions. I remember one time trying 360x360 Mode-X, and for some reason the CRT I was using would shrink the display in that mode. *shrugs*

Being able to manually set resolutions was kinda important too, since 640x480 has aliasing from the stretching going on, so you had to run 640x400 to ensure no aliasing would occur. (Presuming you had VESA 2.0 support, as I don't think 640x400 was supported prior. Could be wrong about that.)

leileilol wrote:

and then there's all those Moraff games that over-promoted their ability to scale up to exotic vendor-specific high resolutions...

Indeed, the first thing I thought of was Moraff's World (and probably its sequels).

Darned if I know why, as it's a rather ugly game, but tons of fancy resolution support.

Jorpho wrote:

Indeed, the first thing I thought of was Moraff's World (and probably its sequels).

Darned if I know why, as it's a rather ugly game, but tons of fancy resolution support.

Oh I can answer that easily. It was made by a PROGRAMMER. ;D

Being a game designer and programmer myself, I can tell you that game art is one of the hardest things I have to deal with in my projects, but I can make an engine that runs smooth as silk and glow effects that rival the quality of glow effects in other games, and still support every screen resolution you can think of in the process. ;)

The point being, as a programmer, the technical aspects of making graphics work in a game makes more sense to me than the artistic aspects of making them look good, and that's a trap a lot of programmers fall into when they try to make a game by themselves without artistic help, since there's many who are extremely talented as programmers but can't create a character sprite to save their life. ^_^;

Being a programmer does have this strange 'i can do anything' delusion included with it. Believe me, as soon as I hacked colored lighting into an engine for dos, I had felt the sense of power that could inspire developing a high-end freeware dos game on my own. It was very hard to surpress this vow to waste time.

leileilol wrote:

I had felt the sense of power that could inspire developing a high-end freeware dos game on my own. It was very hard to surpress this vow to waste time.

🤣...maybe if open sourced wouldn't be such a waste of time? 😜

The Settlers (1993) at least 640x480 and probably up to 1024x768 (not sure).

On the other hand, starcraft was released in 1998 and its resolution was 640x480, looks terrible at a time when games like total annilation was running 1024x768. its unbelievable the game was such a huge hit with such blocky graphics.

Starcraft looked terrible? What the hell, it looked fine, it still looks fine.
A shame that you couldn't change the resolution, but blocky graphics? No way.

gerwin wrote:

Malik wrote:

Errmmm...how about Comanche Maximum Overkill (1992)? It supports SVGA 640x480 high res.

I wish... Pretty sure comanche does not go beyond 320x200.

Right. I think I got it confused with Extreme Assault.

Regarding Starcraft.
A good thing was that every online player had the same view-size of the map. No unfair advantage for players with better hardware.

Currently there are unofficial resolution hacks available, Making the game more comfortable.

I thought THIS game ...

...was blocky. But I still enjoy it nontheless.

Whereas Starcraft ...

I DON'T like Starcraft that much, but Starcraft still looks good by any standards.

No way man, THIS game is blocky!

Pong?!?

Stull wrote:

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No way man, THIS game is blocky!

And to think, Pong was impressive as hell back in 1972 and the original home video game systems were all Pong based to some degree.

Yeah, I still remember a white and black console my cousin had. It just played pong. It didn't matter when connected to the black and white tv those days. The game was in black and white anyway. It had these hard toggle switches on it. They control how difficult or easy you want the game to be.

Frederik Pohl's Gateway (1992) has SVGA 640x480 256 colour support (as does the sequel, Gateway: Homeworld).

There's "Mah Jongg -8514-" from 1991, designed for 8514 cards, runs at 1024x768 and 256 colors. Though supposedly it would run at interlaced 43.5 Hz.

Syndicate. 😊