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No, I am pretty sure this was pre-CGA... I worked for an IBM dealer back then, shipping the original IBM PC. I recall it being a BIG deal when FS ran on the ol
by cyberferret 9y ago
No, I am pretty sure this was pre-CGA... I worked for an IBM dealer back then, shipping the original IBM PC.
I recall it being a BIG deal when FS ran on the old 80x25 green screen monitor. This was before even the Hercules display adapter that let you manipulate things at the pixel level. IIRC the Microsoft engineers were one of the first to do pixel level animation on essentially a text display system.
I may be remembering incorrectly, but I am fairly sure my recollection is right, as that was quite a defining moment in computing for me.
- Narishma 9y agoThe original IBM PC from day 1 shipped with either a text-only monochome display adapter (MDA) or the color graphics adapter (CGA) with the corresponding monitor. So graphics cards were certainly a thing from the beginning.
- cyberferret 9y agoThanks for clearing that up. I seem to remember that we had MDA only versions coming through the workshop in the early days, but I believe that was because the CGA version (or the associated monitor) was quite a premium priced option here in Australia at the time - or perhaps they weren't readily available from the US? Whichever the reason - I know that it was a while before we saw a CGA version come through.