Sierra Game Wallpaper Site

[The Great Underground Empire]

Searched the forums, and it doesn't look like anyone's posted this yet...

Have y'all seen this site with what appears to be every single background of every Sierra game?

http://www.sierrawallpaper.com/

[Babar]

It appears they've taken the pixel versions of the 320x200 games, but messed up converting them to the correct aspect ratio, so...they're a bit out of whack.

[Gilbert]

I haven't really checked their files but it seems they do know what they're doing:

(What is Aspect Ratio Correction? Back in the 80s and 90s, 320x200 games were originally played on CRT monitors with display areas that had a 4:3 aspect ratio. This means that because 320x200 isn't a 4:3 resolution, a pixel displayed in 320x200 mode was rectangular in appearance instead of being square. Modern monitors, however, don't have non-square pixels. As such, we provide our "ARC" download sizes that make use of aspect ratio correction, so that you can see these screenshots the way they were originally seen - the Sierra logo should be a circle, not an oval!)

At least, blowing 320x240 up to 1600x1200 should be a correct choice to maintain even pixel size. How did they mess this up?

[Babar]

(What is Aspect Ratio Correction? Back in the 80s and 90s, 320x200 games were originally played on CRT monitors with display areas that had a 4:3 aspect ratio. This means that because 320x200 isn't a 4:3 resolution, a pixel displayed in 320x200 mode was rectangular in appearance instead of being square. Modern monitors, however, don't have non-square pixels. As such, we provide our "ARC" download sizes that make use of aspect ratio correction, so that you can see these screenshots the way they were originally seen - the Sierra logo should be a circle, not an oval!)

(exactly the image they spoke of)

[Gilbert]

As the one you showed is of 640x400, which is just doubled in resolution in both axes when stretched to 4:3 there isn't any problem (like how the original 320x200 is shown in 4:3).

It seems that when you preview/download the image one-by-one it is messed up.
For example, if you click the first image of Eco Quest and then choose 1600x1200 the preview image is messed up, with black bars added to both the top and bottom, making the original image squished to wide screen in the middle part, BUT if you download the ZIPPED pack "4:3 Pixel-Perfect ARC (Aspect Ratio Correction) (1600x1200)" from the top link the image IS correct: