On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus
wrote:
I have never seen Autocad for a 5150, but there
are color games for the
5150, and if you have a color monitor, the games have code in them to set
the colors and resolution...
For some reason, CGA AutoCad never really caught on.
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.
When I was writing kids games for Software Productions (makers of
"Micro Mother Goose", "Micro Habitats", and "Alphabet Beasts and
Co",
sold by Reader's Digest), we supported the early models of PC around
the DOS 2.10 era, and our products only came in CGA versions (you
could use a Mono adapter but the graphics weren't optimized for that
so many adjacent "shades" of our colors/textures smeared together
visually). Our Apple II products looked *loads* better than those
early fiddlings with CGA.
-ethan