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Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:10:05 GMT
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In article <m2bscgpzw8.fsf@komodo.home.wards.net>,
William R Ward <bill@wards.net> wrote:
> Since Hercules is a superset of MDA, I thought "Hercules MDA" was the
> full name. It is, after all, a monochrome display adapter!
Nope, they were two different things. MDA really didn't last long once
CGA and Hercules existed.
> 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 up the entire maximum card size
> of the AT case. You know how they always had those rails for holding
> cards waaay over on the other end of the motherboard, but very few
> cards were long enough to reach them? This one reaches them. I
> actually used it for a while on a 386 when I was running a BBS. It
> works great with monitors for the Commodore 128. But I thought tha
> CGA was 16 color 320x200. You sure it was only 4-color?
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 could do either the bright or not-so-bright eight text colors, or
the graphics could be one of two four-color palettes (white, cyan, magenta,
and black, or orange, green, yellow, and black).
You could also go into 640x200 mode, and work in monochrome.
> Well, if you want one let me know....
I only keep the monitor around because I know the moment I get rid of it,
I'm going to have to fix a machine with a TTL graphics card... THanks
for the offer, though. :)
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
jd@forinash.not ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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