A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports

I remember that I was playing the DOS version of PoP on a computer with Hercules Graphics Card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card) so I suppose the DOS version also supported Hercules (beyond CGA/EGA/VGA).

The music, even though was playing from the PC beep speaker haunts me to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcI8lQvX8Ng

Finally, after all these years I still remember running it with "prince megahit" to enable cheat mode so I'd be able to pass the levels using ctrl+l...

> I suppose the DOS version also supported Hercules (beyond CGA/EGA/VGA).

IIRC, Hercules cards were more pro-oriented (monochrome graphics, but higher resolution than their contemporaries), so I doubt anyone would bother to make a game port specifically for them.

If you ran the game on a Hercules, most likely it was the CGA version run on top of a CGA simulator [1].

[1] https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php