MarkShot
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I just realized why this games looks so much older than many of the other old DOS games I play like: Aces of the Deep (original), Silent Hunter (original), 1830, Railroad Tycoon Deluxe, Complete Carriers at War, ... These games I just listed are actually older, use true DOS, 256 colors, and in some cases CGA or EGA graphics ... My games playing under DOSBOX despite being old do look like PC games with PC style interfaces. H3 on the other hand looks more like the early raster oriented terminal work stations of the 70s/80s that were just just one step up from the original monochrome and pure text based terminals that appeared as an alternative to punched cards and print outs following the 1960s. Harpoon3 looks nothing like anything that typically was developed for the PC AT or compatibles. So, what you have is an extremely spartan interface that reflects the state of hardware prior to the introduction of bit mapped devices and applications. The game's interface only reflects two concepts that are fairly standard for the modern day: the mouse and resizeable windows. Even the true DOS games which I listed above running in very low resolution, without windowing, with limited mouse support, and very blocky graphics reflect a higher level of hardware/software evolution (the comming of bit mapped graphics and integrated hardware video cards with mapped memory displays). --- So, enjoy this interface while it still exists. Such a presentation ceased to be common place for 30-40 years and is as foreign to young people today as record players, audio tape, coin operated telephones, steel wheel roller skates ...
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