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5 unusual facts about Enhanced Graphics Adapter


Hercules InColor Card

So Hercules released the InColor to compete primarily with IBM's new high-end VGA card, and also the many existing EGA compatible cards on the market.

MiniTSFO

NGFTSFO - Naval Gunfire version using EGA graphics, actual scenes from San Clemente Island training area, and incorporating effects of dispersion between rounds.

By this time, the Extended Graphics Adapter (EGA) was commonly available for the PC offering 640/350 resolution and a palate of 16 colors.

PC Globe

The minimum system requirements of the DOS version of the software is a 8086 processor, 640 KB of RAM and a graphics card CGA, EGA or VGA

Vette!

It praised the game's detail and EGA graphics, only criticizing the lack of sound card support, and concluded that "Vette! surpasses other driving simulations in its scope and realism".


Electrical connector

A few examples are monitors (MGA, CGA, EGA), the Commodore 64, MSX, Apple II, Amiga, and Atari joysticks and mice, and game consoles such as Atari and Sega.

Remote imaging protocol

These were sent from the BBS instead of the more common ANSI color-coded text-mode screens, and were interpreted on the user's end by a RIP-enabled terminal program such as TeleGrafix's own RIPTerm which could draw them at a 640x350 EGA resolution.


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