Good haul of old pc stuph

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Thu Dec 22 14:17:11 CST 2005


> What sort of signal?  Surely not composite video.  EGA resolution
> isn't composite video.  I was talking specifically about the IBM

You can have composite video for any scan rates, although finding a 
monitor that works with it could be 'interesting'.

However, The IBM EGA card (and I would assume the clones) can drive a CGA 
monitor at the standard (TV) rates. No, you don't get the higher 
resolution modes, but IIRC you can have more colours than on a CGA card. 
For that matter, the EGA card will also drive an MDA monitor at the MDA 
rates, and has a graphics mode that's not the same as hercules...

But on an IBM EGA card (as I, and others, have pointed out), these 
connectors essentially go nowhere, just to pins on the feature connector. 

-tony



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