Earl Weaver Baseball II

a.k.a. Earl Weaver Baseball 2

published by Electronic Arts in 1991, developed by Mirage Graphics, running on MS-DOS

type: sport, simulation, manag./econ.
genre: Baseball
perspective: 3rd person
player options: single player, shared-screen, hotseat

languages: eng

4/5

Technical specs

software: DOS 2.x,

hardware: 8086 CPU, 8088 CPU, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Multicolor Graphics Adapter, Tandy Graphics Adapter, Joystick, Keyboard, AdLib SPU, Roland MT-32 SPU, PC speaker SPU,

display: raster

Editor note

Game as an action mode (play typical 1-2 player baseball) and management mode (typical sports manager except with 2-player option)

When played on a VGA card in EGA mode, there was a setting that allowed the game to use VGA colors by directly addressing the registers of the card (bypassing the card's BIOS). This actually allows faster animations than using VGA mode. VGA mode was not supported even if VGA cards were. On a pre-VGA card, this setting was not available and the EGA colors were black, yellow, green, and red (same as CGA mode). MCGA mode shows 256 colors; but of course not many people ever had MCGA.