6 Jul
1998
6 Jul
'98
12:48 p.m.
At 06:25 PM 7/6/98 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Many modern machines will take an MDA or CGA card with
no problems, I am
sure. But I could believe that there are some that don't.
All the clone systems I have ever built or worked on supported MDA/CGA in
BIOS, and also took 8-bit cards. I even had an MDA running in a Tandy
1000TX with CGA onboard. No hitches there, but that machine isn't exactly
one of "today's" systems. I'd be skeptical of any of the newer
proprietary
systems, PB, Comaq, Dell, AST all spring to mind.
Don't you just tell it it has no hard drive
installed, and rely on the
BIOS extension on the 8 bit hard disk controller?
Talking Sony CD-ROM here. I don't think those little 8-bit proprietary
cards were even BIOS driven.
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