28 Feb
2013
28 Feb
'13
3:15 p.m.
On 02/28/2013 01:24 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'm sure there's very little if any CAD for
CGA. The oldest program I
personally used was OrCAD, and that was in the 5170 PC-AT days, and
that was, IIRC, EGA, or at least that's what was on the machine I was
using it on.
I used both OrCAD and Schema on a 5160 with Hercules monochrome
graphics. It worked just fine and I think I even still have the
floppies with a few projects on them. CGA graphics resolution is pretty
terrible, but HGA approaches EGA, just without the color. The Graphics
Plus included a font RAM and support for a 4096-character display font.
I'll have to look at some of the other CAD software ("CADKey") from
about that time to see if it runs on a 5160. I'm guessing that the
answer is "yes".
--Chuck