I’m going to blow past escalating to EGA and CGA and go obscure to ADHerculesD. Hercules was a monochrome system that could emulate CGA/EGA in monochrome with different brightness levels :)
VGA is also the name of a specific resolution, it just happens to also share the name with a connector. The whole letter soup for resolutions was a dumb idea and I’m glad it died out. For example, did you know the Game Boy Advanced had a screen with HQVGA resolution? No, none of the letters stand for what you think they do. Of course that means Half Quarter Video Graphics Array.
Even CGA had at least a couple of different modes because you had the mode with four colors. But you also had a higher resolution mode that was just black and white. Or maybe it was black in one of the colors. I don’t remember. It’s been too long now. But even CJ had at least two different resolutions
Back in my day all we had was ADVGA.
I liked the upgrade to ADHDMI.
I’m going to blow past escalating to EGA and CGA and go obscure to ADHerculesD. Hercules was a monochrome system that could emulate CGA/EGA in monochrome with different brightness levels :)
VGA is also the name of a specific resolution, it just happens to also share the name with a connector. The whole letter soup for resolutions was a dumb idea and I’m glad it died out. For example, did you know the Game Boy Advanced had a screen with HQVGA resolution? No, none of the letters stand for what you think they do. Of course that means Half Quarter Video Graphics Array.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_display_resolutions
But original VGA could be 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.
Also I think it supported a 320x240, and then later on it would support much higher resolutions.
Again, thats the stupid part. VGA means only 640x480. SVGA is 800x600 and QVGA is 1024x768.
All of those resolutions can be successfully sent through a….VGA cable.
Didn’t EGA also support some of those resolutions?
This is exactly why the acronym for display standards was so terrible.
The Extended Graphics Adapter (abbreviated XGA, obviously) by IBM was introduced with multiple resolutions available, named XGA and various deritives.
EGA came earlier and was colloquially used to refer to 16-color display modes, but wasn’t used to define a specific resolution.
More specifically, EGA was a color palatte that had 64 colors available, 16 of which could be displayed at one time.
And then there’s CGA which came prior to EGA, but like it referred to color modes rather than resolution.
Even CGA had at least a couple of different modes because you had the mode with four colors. But you also had a higher resolution mode that was just black and white. Or maybe it was black in one of the colors. I don’t remember. It’s been too long now. But even CJ had at least two different resolutions
Gotta support ADDP for its open ecosystem
ADSD.
Not to be confused with ADSD Cards.
Ok moneybags, I had ADMONOCHROME