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(...) Or, better, get a PC Weasel (URL), which emulates a video card (VGA for the PCI version, MDA for the ISA) and a keyboard during boot and sends the data <-> its serial port -- allowing you to access the BIOS config program. And then when it (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Try to disconnect everything that you don't need to get a pic on the monitor, LED's, floppy, HDD, CD etc. Just leave the CPU and memory (and the power switch if it's ATX - or use some metal to short the right jumper pins (on your own risk)). (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Did you ever buy one? How did it go? I'm asking because I just went through ordering two SV25's (the later edition) and both of them ended up being dead on arrivial. :( All my components are good but I get no POST, no drive spinning, etc. The (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I use ghostview (URL) lugnet.off-topic.geek ROSCO (22 years ago, 21-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) So put a Hercules MDA video card in it! :-) (That's the old monochrome standard, from the days when color monitors were rare on PC's.) I've got a storage locker full of old computer crap that I'd love to get rid of, but I can't quite bring (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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