23 Dec
2005
23 Dec
'05
12:36 a.m.
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:17:11 +0000 (GMT)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
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.
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...