IBM AT Drive Types

[Jim Leonard]

Scott Stevens wrote:
> EGA-Monochrome was very well
> supported in a few essential apps like Microsoft Word for DOS, and it
> also gave a MUCH better video resolution for Windows 3.0 on a 9-pin mono
> monitor than a Hercules card.  

Huh?  EGA mono is 640x350; Hercules is 720x348.  You get more pixels with Hercules.

> Running EGA-monochrome kept me from wasting my time playing games, since
> there was none, nadda, no support at all for gameplaying type graphics
> on EGA-mono.

You didn't look hard enough ;-)  There were at least 100 games of the adventure 
or strategy variety that I remember specifically supporting EGA 640x350 mono.
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