I hate squashed screenshots. Does everyone forget that screens used to be 4:3? Does nobody notice the squashed oval shapes of planets (and other circles)?
It's the non-square pixel size that throws off screenshots, pillarboxing should account for the differences between 16:9 and 4:3. 320×200 resolution was "4.8:3" squished to a 4:3 display, so pixels should be slimmer in the horizontal direction.
Woah, I would have loved a A1200 version back in 1993.
I loved this game, and remember having to swap several discs to play it before I eventually bought a HDD (a whopping 545Mb beast).
It was only recently that I saw the DOS intro on YouTube and realised the Amiga had been short-changed.
One of the first games I played after I got a sound card for my PC. I sunk so many hours into this game. Music was great:
Software also went the other way from Amiga to PC thanks to Brent Iverson, as with EA's DeluxePaint II Enhanced & III and DeluxePaint Animation. Many gaming titles used the former (Amiga? PC?) to create their graphics.
TIL: EHB, the "VGA Mode X" for Amiga.
I haven't thought about it until reading this article. The collecting of random "tiberium", "ore", etc laying around, actually makes sense in the context of Dune. Not so much in Red Alert etc.
Tiberium is C&C 1. Red Alert does not have Tiberium, but ores and gems. And ores can be found on the superficial layer of the earth, so it is not that much of a stretch. Although from a game design perspective, it is greatly simplified.
I always liked dune 1 a lot better. The gameplay wasn't as RTS but there was a storyline mixed in (following the book which I was not familiar with). It made it a really cool experience.
Dune 2 was definitely the better RTS though
Simply incredible that projects like this exist