Re: DHR used?

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

BLuRry wrote:
> > Does anyone have anything?
>
> There were a good number of great games that fully used full dhr
> graphics: Spiderbot, Rad Warrior (USA port of "Antirad"), Maniac
> Mansion, All sierra graphics games (King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry,
> Black Cauldron, Police Quest), Airheart, California Games, Catacombs
> (softdisk, by John Romero of ID software fame)

Additionally, the notable "Might & Magic II" has beautiful fullscreen
graphics.

The CSA2 FAQ lists several titles, mostly of the action genre:
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2GAMES.html#004

> There were quite a few paint programs as well, I remember Beagle Draw
> being one of them.  Multiscribe, aka Beagle Write, used DHR graphics
> for word processing (with mouse!).  Geos was a full mouse-driven GUI
> that used DHR.

"Dazzle Draw" is probably the best known DHGR paint program for the
Apple II. It's also a good compatibility test for the high res text...

> I also wrote a kooky experiment earlier this week to demonstrate how
> you can generate pseudo-colors to push beyond the perceptual 16-color
> limit of DHR.  (brendan.robert.googlepages.com/pseudo-colorexperiment)

There is also a version of "The Graphics Magician" for DHGR which has
several demo pictures.

As you would expect, DHGR is much slower than HGR because of the
doubled amount of memory. However Graphics Magician's routines are fast
"enough" for their purpose.

Of course there are several graphics adventures which make good use of
them, like Penguin/Polarware's "Oo-Topos" and "The Coveted Mirror"
(which are not in the faq list, yet ;-)

bye
Marcus