29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
12:45 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/28/2005 at 6:48 AM Chris M wrote:
When the PC was still young, there were quite a few machines around with
Hercules -compatible mono displays that wouldn't run CGA games. I came up
with a program called SIMCGA that used a small timer-driven TSR to
Didn't that slow things down quite a lot?
My solution was to reprogram HGC horizontal clock so that it was 640 pixels
displayed and 400 lines down -- no copying needed :-)
I concur, most monitors handled it well (although one I had the misfortune of
working with produced a nearly ultrasonic "whine" when operating in this mode)
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