Good haul of old pc stuph

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:17:11 +0000 (GMT)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:

> > 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...
> 
I ran Windows 3.0 on monochrome EGA for a long time with a TTL
monitor.  It has a much better 'aspect ratio' than a Hercules card
and just generally looked better.  Microsoft Word for DOS works
pretty well, too.  It completely shuts you out of all the hacks to
make a Herc card simulate a CGA, though, so no games.  The MDA
modes for the IBM EGA card are very obscure and little third party
software supports them.