Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!pyramid!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Monochrome ega Message-ID: <1828@optilink.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 87 19:57:41 GMT References: <16750@topaz.rutgers.edu> <63200013@eclipse> Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 19 > > topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP!jjoshua writes: > > ... Is there an ega > > card that will let me display ega graphics or even cga graphics on my > > monochrome monitor until I can get a multi-sync or whatever it takes? > > There is a board called an EGA-WONDER board. It's by ATI (a canadian company). > It allows you to do any kind of graphics (up to EGA, i.e.: not VGA or PGS) on > any monitor except maybe composite (including: TTL-MONO, EGA, std. CGA color). > In fact, any card that claims to be an EGA will work with the IBM Monochrome monitor in EGA graphics modes -- many of them will work in CGA graphics mode as well. I know for a fact that the Everex EGA card will do so. However, there's a lot of software out there that assumes "monochrome monitor = no graphics", and will insist that you don't have a graphics card installed. (Reader Rabbit, for example). Clayton E. Cramer