Dragon’s Lair description
Simultaneously with the "regular" CD version of "Dragon's Lair" for the IBM PC was released and another, the most rare in today's edition of the famous arcade game, in which the entire video was moved to progressive MPEG format. The resolution of the latter, constituting 352х240, at first glance, is not particularly superior to the conventional DOS-ovsky 320х200, but 30 fps vs the original 6 or 12 allowed much more smoothly display animated videos, and look the picture much more vividly and clearly. It is sufficient to notice that almost all of the later CD edition of "Dragon's Lair", including options for CD-i and Windows and until the Russian version of the 2007 release, used the same MPEG files, and DOS in 1993, advertising such as original and perfect transcoding.
Setup options and copyright notice Fine tuning to your system can take hours to perform- just skip it. Dirk the Daring looking just like you remember him from the arcade
Would be this version the best option – but the problem is that you will purpose to not most popular hardware decoders: despite all the advantages of such, not every user in the middle of 1990-ies was ready to pay 400-500 dollars for the card, allows you to enjoy improved versions of just where something like a dozen games, it is available in the other varieties. And age REALmagic is very short: MPEG2 and the DVD was already in the offing.
However, if you are the proud owner of the cards from Sigma Designs, be sure to try its power in the MPEG-version of "Dragon's Lair". After running only need to specify your input device ("K" for keyboard or J for joystick) to view an introductory demonstration of the process, or interrupt it by pressing any key – and try to help Dirk rescue Daphne did, pressing in the right and very accurate time keys small numeric keypad and "enter".
Now, play Dragon’s Lair online for free on your browser and make your boring weekend fun and full of entertainment.
Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com