PC/Apple/etc. Cards Worth Keeping/Storing

[Jim Leonard]

Tony Duell wrote:
>>Well, nothing that probably already hasn't been stated before -- I know the 
>>specifications of the Motorola 6845 and how it works, and I know that the tech 
>>ref documents each CRTC register, etc...  what I'm looking for is stuff that 
>>probably isn't in the tech ref, like "what are the invalid settings for each 
>>register", etc as implemented on the CGA.
> 
> That is not in the techref :-(. It doesn't even tell you how to get the 
> 160*200 16 colour mode...

Considering that the 160x200 composite color mode was actually documented, that 
stinks!

> What, I suspect, you need to do is look at the schematics. Those are in 
> the techref, the board consists of a 6845, 16K DRAMs and a lot of TTL. 
> There's nothing custom (unlike the gate array in the PCjr), so it should 
> be possible to figure it all out.

Okay, looking at MC6845 specs right now...

> Be warned that, of course, clone cards may not support such tricks. 

That's their problem :-)  I have a true blue CGA card, so that's what I'm going 
to hammer on.

Thanks for checking for me!
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