Half of those, I've never played. Those that I have played, I only went through once, and with the help of a walkthrough. So I can't really give any solid recommendations. I know the Conquest games are both heavy on copy protection as a substitute for puzzles. They do have an interesting system of t...

It's easy to think now in terms of a linear succession, with each new medium being an improvement over the last before it. And I don't think it makes sense to complain about this sort of advancement in technology. Better technology is better. Where there is valid cause for complaint would when one m...

I really don't understand the vehemence of your opposition to Blu-ray. It's not just an arbitrary change; Blu-rays were introduced because they're objectively better than DVDs: they have higher capacity and can store the same length of video at higher resolution. So if you have the option of buying ...

IndieGala has a bundle with Steam keys for the LSL games (and some others) for $4.

Unlike many games with a pre-rendered background, QfG5 had a moving camera. The simplest way to simulate this would just be by zooming and panning the background, but I'm not sure if QfG5 did something more complex than that. If there's even a small difference in the zoom level, you won't be able to...

It is, indeed, from SQ5.

It's hard to get things that aren't immediately obvious. Let's try this:

My guess, then, is the skeletal structure on the planet in the EGA version of the SQ1 remake.

It's not SQ1 or SQ2, since it lacks the double-width pixels of AGI games. Graphically, it only matches SQ3, though it doesn't look at all familiar from that. Then of course there's the possibility that this is from an EGA version of what would normally be a VGA game.

Ah. The dinginess is confined to the cells.

The memorable puzzle would have to be the brig, but I recall that being rather dingy, while that image is pristine.

The new image has already been posted.

Yes.

No.