Re: [Freedos-devel] Need ZULIA for Hercules/CGA emulation

2024-12-19 Thread Bart Oldeman via Freedos-devel
CGA 320x200 was displayed on 640x300, you'd see for instance amber, "brown", and black. The "brown" just looked like low intensity amber, as every other pixel was displayed, like this for palette 0 (black/green/red/yellow) x x x -> green looks like brown x x x-> red also looks like brown, bu

Re: [Freedos-devel] Need ZULIA for Hercules/CGA emulation

2024-12-19 Thread Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel
May I ask a stupid question? CGA had four colours, quite garish ones in fact, in both available palettes. How did they emulate 4 colours on a monochrome card? Am I missing something? On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 at 15:01, Ben Collver via Freedos-devel wrote: > > I don't know about ZULIA, but back in the d

Re: [Freedos-devel] Need ZULIA for Hercules/CGA emulation

2024-12-19 Thread Ben Collver via Freedos-devel
I don't know about ZULIA, but back in the day, I used SIMCGA for this purpose. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listin

Re: [Freedos-devel] Need ZULIA for Hercules/CGA emulation

2024-12-19 Thread Bart Oldeman via Freedos-devel
I did have to deal with those as a teenager in the early nineties, but never heard of ZULIA. There are several others: https://archive.org/details/HGCIBM202 and a whole page about them https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php I also hacked on one myself but I don't know if

[Freedos-devel] Need ZULIA for Hercules/CGA emulation

2024-12-18 Thread Samuel V. via Freedos-devel
I had a program for an 8088 with an Hercules cardto play games like DIGGER, DIGDUG, and any other gamesthat needed CGA, with an Hercules card. I no longer have a working 8088, I think the floppy whereI had this CGA emulator program (ZULIA) is now unreadable,I don't find the old 360K floppy drive