I was browsing through some Spanish Amstrad mags, and came across a review for Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
It all looks and sounds interesting, but where oh where to download it?
Seen here on pages 24,25 - http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amstrad_Accion_13 (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amstrad_Accion_13)
Wiki being wiki, take it with a pinch of salt, but it's claiming it only saw c64 release out of the main 8bits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit_(1988_video_game)
Not sure where the Spanish mag got their screen shots from though.
It says ''Amstrad PC" next to version, looks like a CGA PC title..
Quote from: Skunkfish on 17:20, 22 February 18
It says ''Amstrad PC" next to version, looks like a CGA PC title..
Ding ding ding! We have a winner here...
Dang, everyones way too smart.
Err so whats a CGA?
Colour Graphics Adapter. The precursor to Video Graphics Array, which came out a few years later on PC's
Ahh, right.
I just watched the long play Atari ST you tubes, its a so-so game.
Thats the trouble with these movie tie-ins, not many of them were all that great.
Sadly they didn't need to be any good. The licence would ensure they'd sell loads anyway...
Ocean seemed to be the Kings for it.
Batman, Robocop, Platoon, Terminator 2, Rambo, Rambo III, Untouchables, Total Recall and the Addams Family were all very playable.
Activision seemed to acquire a lot of licences too, most of which were stink bombs though.
I always found the two most commonly used CGA colour palettes nauseating. What colour blind technician came up with those colour schemes?
I think it was a choice of cyan, white, magenta & black or red, green, yellow & black? The latter palette being slightly less garish.
I always found the blue/magenta one completely indecent besides for a very few things (p1 was it?). The one based in warmer colors, the p0, was much more acceptable. There are, however, a few sci-fi themed video games that use the first one quite in a successful way. Then, there was this other one with red and cyan that I think was also quite terrible :blank:
Quote from: blackdalek on 03:32, 23 February 18
I always found the two most commonly used CGA colour palettes nauseating. What colour blind technician came up with those colour schemes?
I think it was a choice of cyan, white, magenta & black or red, green, yellow & black? The latter palette being slightly less garish.
Were these not the same as the CoCo/Dragon computers?
Weren't the palettes chosen because they could be used to better generate more colours via colour artifacting when displayed over an NTSC composite display? As time went by it became a rare thing on PCs, even in the US, so the garish palettes became more obvious.
Quote from: EgoTrip on 19:49, 23 February 18
Were these not the same as the CoCo/Dragon computers?
The Cocos had red, yellow, green and blue or magenta, cyan, white and orange.... so yes, almost identical.
Quote from: ||C|-|E|| on 18:12, 23 February 18I always found the blue/magenta one completely indecent besides for a very few things (p1 was it?). The one based in warmer colors, the p0, was much more acceptable. There are, however, a few sci-fi themed video games that use the first one quite in a successful way. Then, there was this other one with red and cyan that I think was also quite terrible :blank:
Purple Saturn Day :D
All this talk of colours and not one mention that Bennie the cab was yellow in the movie!