Monkey Island in Hercules graphics

Even "lower" settings than CGA can be chosen for graphics. In DOSBox, machine type must be set to "hercules" for this to work. Then, launch (the EGA version of) The Secret of Monkey Island with "monkey h".

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• Secret
• of
• Monkey
• Island
• DOSBox
• hercules
• graphics

[sleepersoundstudio]

actually, this was better than the CGA version.. sure it's only monochrome but its at 720×348! CGA was only 320x240

[LaukkuTheGreit]

@sleepersoundstudio You mean 320x200?

Anyway, the higher resolution doesn't give any more detail. The original graphics were done in 320x200, and the extra resolution is used for dithering (to give the illusion of more than two colours), which makes it look less clear IMO.

[TheIrateFan]

do you know of you can put in dosbox hecules with ambar graphics? I had this monitor in that time and I would like to revive it again :)

[LaukkuTheGreit]

@TheIrateFan You're in luck! The newest version, 0.74, just got support for various colours for Hercules mode. The details are in the config file and readme.

[ulukaijr]

This is EPIC!!!

[lucinos19]

@LaukkuTheGreit I disagree because I had played the game on my old PC that could switch between Hercules and CGA and Hercules was better.

[SkyCharger001]

@PuristRealist the screen is black/gray, not black/white. but this could be to make the image easier on the eye or to match the brightness setting of the guy's old monitor.

[purvicide]

It's like Monkey Island on Game Boy.

[Nbkrfc]

i only enjoyed the music....the rest sucked!! :L :P well done all the same

[renmorpheus]

This looks like it had been stitched, one can barely make out what's on the screen! I did love the orange/black monitors in my dormitory though :D

[k24601]

Sorry but I prefer VGA and other graphics over this sort of thing. I'm surprised people are happy about it just because it's nostalgic for them....if I had had to play this game with no colors or in CGA version I'd be mad and probably hate the game. But since I got to play with color VGA or whatever....much love for the game. 

[PuristRealist]

Are the graphics on a real "white" screen that dark? I've mostly seen pictures and videos from green screens, which suggest that the graphics were normally brighter. There was some discussion about this in the dosbox forum, and someone made patch, that made some games look more accurate, at least it looked like it for some specific games and with "green" settings.

[ashfoxx85]

This is so awesome! It's funny that I wanted so bad for my computer to be this good in grade school. We had an Apple II.