26th September 2006, 2:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 26th September 2006, 2:25 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Can't find these collections anywhere, though the clerks all say they have them "listed", whatever that means to me (I guess it means the store acknowledges the item's existance).
I decided to play KQ6 DOS version using DOSbox just to get a preview of what that'll be like and to confirm a few things. Ouch... Windows version is just plain better. The first thing I noticed was that while all the cursors had color, it was BRIGHT ORANGE on everything. I'd rather have black and white. Secondly, the cursors are in low res VGA. The problem with this is it becomes VERY hard to click the cursors on anything when they are the size of hams. The higher res windows versions are much better for this. Also, the windows cursors are just smaller, not losing any real details, which means they look decent too.
The biggest strike against this though is the close up animations when people talk. In the Windows version, they are in "Super VGA", really high res and in fact a lot of them are drawn a little differently and more detailed (most of them are standing at an angle), but in the DOS version, it's as low res and not as nice looking as the KQ5 ones.
Windows version wins. Much nicer looking and more usable cursors.
I decided to play KQ6 DOS version using DOSbox just to get a preview of what that'll be like and to confirm a few things. Ouch... Windows version is just plain better. The first thing I noticed was that while all the cursors had color, it was BRIGHT ORANGE on everything. I'd rather have black and white. Secondly, the cursors are in low res VGA. The problem with this is it becomes VERY hard to click the cursors on anything when they are the size of hams. The higher res windows versions are much better for this. Also, the windows cursors are just smaller, not losing any real details, which means they look decent too.
The biggest strike against this though is the close up animations when people talk. In the Windows version, they are in "Super VGA", really high res and in fact a lot of them are drawn a little differently and more detailed (most of them are standing at an angle), but in the DOS version, it's as low res and not as nice looking as the KQ5 ones.
Windows version wins. Much nicer looking and more usable cursors.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)