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Andi

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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2004, 07:18:55 PM »
I thought it's something like that. :D
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Ice_Eagle91

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« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2004, 04:35:46 AM »
I think Lemmings have green hair because it's their style.

Why do Lemmings wear blue suits?
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« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2004, 07:51:59 AM »
Quote from: Mike  link=1088733112/0#14 date=1091213455
Lemmings had green hair because the PC's EGA palette had the first 3 colours of white/blue/green.

Lemmings were only 4 colours (2 bitplanes) so the choice was blue hair/green trousers or green hair/blue trousers.

Boring he! :)


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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2004, 01:28:08 AM »
Why Lemmings and not another rodent?
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2004, 09:42:25 PM »
Quote from: DragonsLover  link=1088733112/15#18 date=1093397288
Why Lemmings and not another rodent?


The real lemmings are notorious for running off cliffs and committing suicide (Although I do not believe they do so intentionally).  The green-haired Lemmings in the computer game do the same thing.  Psygnosis probably had this in mind when they designed the game.
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« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2004, 11:51:49 AM »
Are you ignoring me? I'm asking this question again:

Why do lemmings wear blue suits?
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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2004, 01:14:31 PM »
Because four times six equals seventy-two.
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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2004, 01:37:53 PM »
Quote from: Ice_Eagle91  link=1088733112/15#20 date=1093607509
Are you ignoring me? I'm asking this question again:

Why do lemmings wear blue suits?


Mike said it! Do you have problems with reading? It's because of the limitations to the EGA palette. They had no other choice.
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Andi

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« Reply #23 on: September 14, 2004, 04:21:18 PM »
I just found this nice website: http://www.smbhq.com/users/snss/Comics/Comix.htm

Check "The Adventures of Lemmy the Lemming" out.
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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #24 on: September 14, 2004, 05:51:20 PM »
Look at that (image taken from the website):

RayLem


The site is really cool! :thumbsup:
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Juhaz

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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2004, 12:05:01 PM »
Quote from: Mike  link=1088733112/0#14 date=1091213455
Lemmings had green hair because the PC's EGA palette had the first 3 colours of white/blue/green.

Lemmings were only 4 colours (2 bitplanes) so the choice was blue hair/green trousers or green hair/blue trousers.

Boring he! :)


I wouldn't be so sure about that.

After all, Lemmings was not born as a PC game, it was originally written for Amiga, with vastly superior graphics capabilities compared to the first primitive PC's.

And Lemmings had the same color scheme there, so technical reasons based on EGA limits imposed much later don't make much sense.
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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2004, 07:25:15 PM »
Mike actually worked on Lemmings, so I'd be inclined to believe him - he's probably talking specifically about the PC version.
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« Reply #27 on: November 04, 2004, 09:49:59 PM »
Actually, the first prototype was done on the PC by Russell Kay about a year before the Amiga one even started.

Both games were developed side by side (along with the ST one), and since the Amiga and ST versions had total control over palettes, we were forced to use the PC as the limiting factor.

And yes..... I do know what Im talking about :D
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Andi

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« Reply #28 on: November 05, 2004, 12:34:00 PM »
Mike, I wanted to ask you something:

In some old magazines you see very often Lemmings-Illustrations. Are they still somehow available as Cliparts or so?

Ah, and if there weren't limitations on the palette, what colour would the lemmings have?
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Re: General Lemmings
« Reply #29 on: November 05, 2004, 08:33:19 PM »
Do you mean the concept art? There are scans available of them around... just have a search..

Search for "lemmings concept" and use images on google, they'll come up there.

If you look at my first animation.... it was blue hair, and red jump suit... no idea why... I think that was part of t
the default palette of DPaint. I guess it would have been close to that, otherwise, Ive no idea.
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