Tony Duell wrote:
IIRC, you could turn off the colour subcarrier, etc
using a bit of one of
the output ports (I think this was done in Mode 2), this was worth doing
if you used a mono mnonitor. And I seem to rememebr you could get an
extra 4 colour palette on the RGB (DE9) output if you did this.
Correct on both counts; see the wikipedia entry for CGA for exact details.
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