23 Jul
2005
23 Jul
'05
4:33 a.m.
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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