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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
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> 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