I don't remember having such a CGA simulator. I suppose it would be a TSR program that I needed to run before prince, but definitely I wasn't doing that.
From some research it seems that hercules was actually supported:
Intel 8088/8086 CPU, 512 KB of RAM (640 KB for MCGA/VGA version)
Graphics support for Hercules, CGA, Tandy/PCjr, EGA and MCGA/VGA (320 x 200 max. resolution in 256 colours)
Notice that PoP was one of the few games I was able to play with that hercules monitor :|
It seems you're right. I vaguely remember using simcga on a friend's PC (where we also played PoP) but I can't recall for which game.
Given that the PC version of PoP was launched in 1990 and CGA simulators existed since 1986, I would guess that even embedding the simulator to the game, so that it works out of the box, would have been a viable option.
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I don't remember having such a CGA simulator. I suppose it would be a TSR program that I needed to run before prince, but definitely I wasn't doing that.
From some research it seems that hercules was actually supported:
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/getting-started/enhancing-pri...
and from
https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Games/game_prince.php
Notice that PoP was one of the few games I was able to play with that hercules monitor :|
It seems you're right. I vaguely remember using simcga on a friend's PC (where we also played PoP) but I can't recall for which game.
Given that the PC version of PoP was launched in 1990 and CGA simulators existed since 1986, I would guess that even embedding the simulator to the game, so that it works out of the box, would have been a viable option.
I also played it on a PC with Hercules too and I don't remember having to resort to an emulator or any other program.