sad when you think of all the cards that have been scrapped over the
last 20 years for early PC
Ed#
In a message dated 8/14/2016 10:55:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cclist at
sydex.com writes:
On 08/14/2016 10:15 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
why the unnecessary switches? (CGA does mode
switching in software,
and enables simultaneous composite and RGB, hence the IBM vetsion
dorsn't need switches)
I think that the switches mostly relate to output configurations; that
is, they don't change the basic operation. For example, the "monochrome
composite" is probably just luminance, blank and sync (VBS), whereas
the "color composite" is the complete CVBS signal.
I suspect that setting either of the two composite modes probably
disables the output at the DE-9.
It would be interesting to see what other combinations of switches
produce something useful.
Of course, this is all wild-hare speculation on my part, as I don't have
anything like this card sitting in my hellbox.
FWIW,
Chuck