IBM AT Drive Types

[Julian Wolfe]

Back in the day, I ran Windows 3.1 on a 12MHz 286, with a Hercules 
card, and I still remember how vertically stretched the splash screen 
looked on the Hercules display.

That thing was a sad mess - I had a EGA card and monitor I used for 
color graphics, and a Hercules I used for Windows apps (for the higher 
resolution)

Despite its quirks, I wish I never separated and sold that machine.

Thems whuz the daze...

On Jul 22, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Scott Stevens wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:33:21 -0500
> Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> For whatever reason, the drivers for Windows 3.0 make for a MUCH nicer
> looking display with EGA monochrome than for a Hercules card.  I can't
> say why, but I distinctly remember this as being the case.  It might
> have more to do with the aspect ratio than the pixel count.
>