History of Graphic Adventures

maximus · Post by **maximus** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:45 pm

Just came across this article and thought I'd share it as the subject matter should prove to be interesting to all members of this board

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2 ... ntures.ars

SithlordDK · Post by **SithlordDK** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:18 pm

Well written and interesting... I liked it

sammymarlo · Post by **sammymarlo** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:48 pm

Cool article.

MeddlingMonk · Post by **MeddlingMonk** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:11 am

Not only cool, but ScummVM might have been used in creating that article. Scalers are clearly being used in the screenshots of ScummVM supported games. Of course, you can do that with DOSBox, but if they were using DOSBox alone I would expect all the screenshots to show the same amount of smoothing.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:08 am

It had to have been both. There were shots from games that are not (yet) supported by ScummVM, but it seems that they don't know how to set different render modes in DOSBox. Then there were the other games not supported by either DOSBox or ScummVM.

DrMcCoy · Post by **DrMcCoy** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:52 am

Using after-the-fact smoothing scalers in an article showcasing the history of the games is actually pretty stupid in my opinion...

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:49 pm

DrMcCoy wrote:Using after-the-fact smoothing scalers in an article showcasing the history of the games is actually pretty stupid in my opinion...

Agreed.