You raise some good questions, Valentin. Personally, I'd rather have perfect Tandy compatibility than imperfect EGA compatibility. If you can somehow work your wizardry to perfect EGA, then obviously that's better, but to me, the reality is even with "only" Tandy support (and presumably perfect CGA and monochrome), you're still talking a huge number of games.
Biggest limitation with the current Tandy video emulation on the 'Flea is that it doesn't currently support multiple screen pages - though this may be far easier to rectify than starting again with EGA. Of course, would be nice to see this neat little project in the hands of gamers sooner rather than later.. :-)
Also lacking from the Tandy graphics on the Flea is a 640x200 color mode, due to insufficient room in the code space - unless I take out VGA Mode 13h. I should also note that VGA Mode 13h does not currently include text support.
Bill Loguidice wrote:
You may want to do VGA/EGA in a hypothetical future "Super Flea86" where you have a bit more power/room...
I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea, to reserve EGA/VGA for use on a faster/more powerful hardware version further down the road.
Hi Bill, thanks for the comments!
You raise some good questions, Valentin. Personally, I'd rather have perfect Tandy compatibility than imperfect EGA compatibility. If you can somehow work your wizardry to perfect EGA, then obviously that's better, but to me, the reality is even with "only" Tandy support (and presumably perfect CGA and monochrome), you're still talking a huge number of games.
Biggest limitation with the current Tandy video emulation on the 'Flea is that it doesn't currently support multiple screen pages - though this may be far easier to rectify than starting again with EGA. Of course, would be nice to see this neat little project in the hands of gamers sooner rather than later.. :-)
Also lacking from the Tandy graphics on the Flea is a 640x200 color mode, due to insufficient room in the code space - unless I take out VGA Mode 13h. I should also note that VGA Mode 13h does not currently include text support.
You may want to do VGA/EGA in a hypothetical future "Super Flea86" where you have a bit more power/room...
I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea, to reserve EGA/VGA for use on a faster/more powerful hardware version further down the road.
Cheers, Valentin