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- From: m88max@tdb.uu.se (Max Brante)
- Subject: Re: CGA on a monochrome monitor?Please reply
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.141922.773@tdb.uu.se>
- Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:19:22 GMT
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- ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
- > I have a monochrome amber monitor and a cga emulator card right now,
- > actually a mono graphics card.
- > Now,I have a program that needs true cga to run.
- > SInce cga cards have a 9 pin connector xlike my monitor has,can i plug
- > it in and get cga on my mono monitor?
-
- NO don't plug in a CGA monitor to the connector, you may damage it beyond
- repair.
-
- I seems like you have a card that is able to emulate CGA-graphics on a
- monochrome (Hercules) monitor. I have just such a card.
- From the computers point of view the card seems to be a CGA-card.
-
- To solve your problem, if you have a card like mine, you jut set the jumpers
- on the card to make the card have CGA emulation mode as the default mode and
- change the BIOS settings to color and it should work.
-
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- If you have a AMI-bios you way get the message "Display switch not proper"
- on bootup just press F1 and ignore that. I haven't come across any program
- that needs CGA that won't run with setup.
-
- BTW. I bought my card second hand and ididn't get the programs to switch
- between (is it really spelled like that?) the different modes of the card.
- Do you know where i can get them? Or maybe you can mail them to me, if you have
- them of course? I have a little booklet that describes the card and the names
- of the programs are named there, but i can't remember neither their names nor
- the manufacturer of the card.
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