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    Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —John D. Forinash
   (...) Which one's the standard? :) The MDA was the original PC display adapter (stood for, amazingly enough, Monochrome Display Adapter) and didn't do graphics at all. Two color, text only, 80x25. Hercules, on the other hand, was a different spec (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —William R. Ward
   (...) Since Hercules is a superset of MDA, I thought "Hercules MDA" was the full name. It is, after all, a monochrome display adapter! (...) I've got a CGA card that's truly frightening - it's an 8-bit ISA card that is full of 74xx chips. It takes (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Graphics cards on the PC (was some pansy mac stuff —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) My old EGA card (by a clone brand) had a Hercules emulation mode and I had some games that used it! (...) Yes. 4 colors at a time, but you could choose which 4 from two possible palettes. Red/Green/Blue/Black or Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black, if I (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —John D. Forinash
     (...) Nope, they were two different things. MDA really didn't last long once CGA and Hercules existed. (...) Depends on the mode, actually. You could only do graphics in four colors, or text in eight, but the card knew how to display 16 total. You (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —William R. Ward
     (...) I see. I was talking about text mode, you were talking about graphics mode. --Bill. (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —Erik Olson
   (...) It frightens me that you all have kept my subject line! well, it does say "low-end". (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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