Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SETCGA, SIMCGA info? Message-ID: <2801@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 18:59:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2801 Posted: Sun Jul 5 18:59:23 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jul-87 00:43:24 EDT References: <2490007@hpsadla.HP> <1685@kontron.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 31 As quoted from <1685@kontron.UUCP> by cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer): +--------------- | > 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. Anyone heard of them? Are they Public Domain or not? | | Just a reminder: the TTL monochrome monitors (like the IBM Monochrome | Display) are electrically incompatible with the CGA card. (Smoke and | everything apparently results). +--------------- Mine didn't smoke, it just didn't work. Then again, I was VERY careful when I tried it. BTW, SIMCGA does not use the CGA card; it translates BIOS calls for the CGA into equivalent Hercules card commands, allowing CGA programs that go through the BIOS to run unmodified on Hercules monitors. (I assume it's BIOS only, since it's doubtful that software could deal with writing directly to the CGA.) ++Brandon -- ---- Moderator for comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc ---- Brandon S. Allbery!cbosgd!ncoast!allbery (NOW!!!!) aXcess Company {ames,mit-eddie,harvard,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 6615 Center St. #A1-105 {well,sun,pyramid,ihnp4}!hoptoad!ncoast!allbery Mentor, OH 44060-4101 necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU (Internet) +01 216 974 9210 ncoast!allbery@CWRU.EDU (CSnet -- if you dare) NCOAST ADMIN GROUP Brandon Allbery on 157/504 (Fidonet/Matrix/whatever) * ncoast -- Public Access UN*X -- (216) 781-6201, 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400 baud * * ncoast is proud to be carrying alt.all -- contact me for more information *