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I figure I post this here since this is a part of the forum dedicate to Wizardry and hopefully we will see 1-5 here.

Anyway if you ever played the classic Wizardry's(1-5) you know the PC version looks awful, well more awful than it's siblings due to the limits of 4 colour CGA so what little art there is looks like this:
http://enhancementshaman.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/wiz2.jpg

Horrid shades of white,cyan and purple but I found out that if you set Dosbox to CGA mode the games will look like this:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/Evilmonkey6669/wiznonpup.png
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/Evilmonkey6669/malestrom.png

Not much but it is a less painful improvement, at least if you ask me
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DCT: I figure I post this here since this is a part of the forum dedicate to Wizardry and hopefully we will see 1-5 here.

Anyway if you ever played the classic Wizardry's(1-5) you know the PC version looks awful, well more awful than it's siblings due to the limits of 4 colour CGA so what little art there is looks like this:
http://enhancementshaman.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/wiz2.jpg

Horrid shades of white,cyan and purple but I found out that if you set Dosbox to CGA mode the games will look like this:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/Evilmonkey6669/wiznonpup.png
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/Evilmonkey6669/malestrom.png

Not much but it is a less painful improvement, at least if you ask me
Agreed. it hurts my eyes without the fix for sure.
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DCT: I figure I post this here since this is a part of the forum dedicate to Wizardry and hopefully we will see 1-5 here.

Anyway if you ever played the classic Wizardry's(1-5) you know the PC version looks awful, well more awful than it's siblings due to the limits of 4 colour CGA so what little art there is looks like this:
http://enhancementshaman.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/wiz2.jpg

Horrid shades of white,cyan and purple but I found out that if you set Dosbox to CGA mode the games will look like this:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/Evilmonkey6669/wiznonpup.png
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/Evilmonkey6669/malestrom.png

Not much but it is a less painful improvement, at least if you ask me
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bossonova: Agreed. it hurts my eyes without the fix for sure.
mine too, for some time I was having to play Wiz 1-5 either on the Apple 2 emulator which for Wizardry 1-3 isn't much better since there is a smaller view window for the dungeon and the character art is awful to look at or the c64 versions which look better and had decent colours but the load times are painful to deal with and the later ones had ridiculous amount of discs that need to be swapped in and out constantly. This little discovery helped me though I can now play the PC version without getting headaches, plus the colours are not much different from the other versions anyway all but the latter Japanese ports had used very limited colour palettes anyway.