So I kinda did a thing... (CGA + Sixel)

[prozacgod]

I'm not sure this would be of interest, I kinda know you had a different vision for your tool, but I kinda wanted to show it off, its buggy and not written well, but it worked!

Alley cat seems to hard lock when getting past the intro screen.

I have not pushed this anywhere as of yet, but if people are interested I can.

[prozacgod]

Bloxinies (2013) actually plays more or less fine, with a bit of odd screen corruption, but seems to be completely working. (source available/freeware here) https://thandor.net/article/34

[johnsonjh]

This is pretty cool!

[devinsmith]

I'm interested in this! Could it be adapted to 16 color VGA at all? It might be useful or fun for some reverse engineering work I'm doing.

[prozacgod]

I actually started working on VGA stuff as well. So the 320 by 200 mode 13, and then the 16 color mode 12. I do not think I'm aiming for any sort of complete support. So no CRTC register stuff. Obviously for mode 13 the pallet would have to be supported. But I think the X and Y modes I may not support. I'll look into it if there's like a trivial way to do it without deep diving into arcane VGA knowledge territory... Although I still have my "Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards" book.

[devinsmith]

The games I'm looking at really only use 16 colors in standard mode 13, 320x200, so that would be perfect.