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Ha! Cool! I wasn't the only one!

But honestly, I eventually concluded that with the resolution available on my CGA monitor, the (slightly) higher-resolution black and white version was probably a better choice (and it gave the game a bit of a noir air).

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I wish I would have had this special driver for the 16-color CGA mode (!) on the Amstrad PC1512 back then:

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=75497

What killed me is that I had an ATI Graphics Solution that could do Plantronics modes[1]. Even came with a demo disk showing off the glorious 16 colors. Took 30+ years but someone finally wrote a Sierra driver for it[2]!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantronics_Colorplus

[2] https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=75877

We should probably both have gotten Amigas instead.

Then I couldn’t have split the 5.25” and 3.5” PC disks with my PS/2 owning schoolmate! (Yes, Mr. Look-at-me-with-VGA…)

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