home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   comp.sys.tandy      Life is dandy cuz you're gettin a Tandy!      5,684 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 5,158 of 5,684   
   Michael Black to Jim Leonard   
   Re: CGA (or EGA or mono) to VGA Adapter   
   12 Nov 09 21:47:33   
   
   4034e661   
   XPost: comp.sys.ibm.pc.classic   
   From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
     This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,   
     while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.   
      
   On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Jim Leonard wrote:   
      
   > On Nov 11, 6:06 pm, Mark McDougall  wrote:   
   >>  I mean - retro-hobbyist aside - why   
   >> would you do it when a much cheaper and better option is a VGA card!?!   
   >   
   > But only a retro-hobbyist would want to do it :-)  And the reason is   
   > because there are some PC games that only display properly on true CGA.   
   >   
   No, a retro-hobbyist wouldn't be interested because it's too recent.   
      
   They'd want a composite NTSC to VGA adapter, since that's what most small   
   computers used before (and even after) the IBM PC came along.   
      
       Michael   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca