Re: what is the IIgs? : good idea....

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 22, 10:37 pm, ale...@mac.com wrote:
> Just to clarify a few things (and it's all still theoretical BTW):
>
> There is no way in hell that the IIGS will ever play Day of the
> Tentacle. It uses 256 colours for all the graphics. The is no version
> of this game that uses a smaller colour depth.

If the target platform is a stock IIGS, I'd agree. If memory serves,
the colour richness was not so extreme (thinking here of Monkey Island
I & II) that 1 palette per scanline couldn't do a pretty decent job of
rendering it, and at 7Mhz+, this should tick along just nicely

That said, I think you're right that a 'port' of ScummVM using Orca/C
isn't going to bear fruit - a *lot* of customized code would need to
be written to get the GS to do it snappily.

I love to see it happen. I've been looking for an excuse to pull a GS
out of storage. Being able to play Monkey Island on it would be great
fun!

Matt