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Somewhere in there was MCGA too. I still remember very cool stuff on the 8086 Amstrad PC 1640 that had an EGA card. You had to do palette magic and it was hard
by touisteur 4y ago
Somewhere in there was MCGA too. I still remember very cool stuff on the 8086 Amstrad PC 1640 that had an EGA card. You had to do palette magic and it was hard to do any animation, but I think games like Xenon 2 and Prince of Persia did a good job of it.
- jasomill 4y agoIIRC — I worked in a computer lab full of PS/2 Model 25 at the time — MCGA was just CGA with a couple VGA modes (640x480x2 and 320x200x256) bolted on. In particular, it was not compatible with EGA.
- touisteur 4y agoIndeed you're right. I just remembered seeing it in all the configuration menus. Didn't know it had so little diffusion.