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From: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SETCGA, SIMCGA info?
Message-ID: <644@cgh.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Jul-87 10:41:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: cgh.644
Posted: Sat Jul  4 10:41:49 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 09:36:07 EDT
References: <2490007@hpsadla.HP>
Reply-To: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Organization: Chimitt Gilman Homchick Inc., Radnor, PA
Lines: 21
Keywords: hercules CGA monochrome grahpics
Summary: SIMCGA simulates CGA on a Hercules

/* From <2490007@hpsadla.HP> in comp.sys.ibm.pc
            by dsd@hpsadla.HP (Donald St. Denis) */
>
>An guy just stopped by and asked me about some graphics utilities for the 
>use of a monochrome monitor connected to a CGA card.  The names are 
>SETCGA and SIMCGA.
>
I'm not sure what SETCGA does, but SIMCGA and a similar file: HGCIBM.ARC
are programs that simulate the behavior of the CGA on a Hercules mono card.
Since they use software to do what the CGA does in hardware, they are slow
but I have been told by many folks that they DO work.  They are public
domain, and have been flying around the BBS circuit since last Fall.

I wouldn't think that you could easily run a monochrome monitor with a
CGA, as the scan rates are different.  Several companies do make cards
that will show CGA graphics on a mono card tho, Paradise comes to mind.

-- 
                            Paul Homchick
Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc.; One Radnor Station, Suite 300; Radnor, PA 19087
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