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Also, it could display foreign characters in text mode unlike CGA cards. It was the serious business card of its day.
by jandrese 3y ago
Also, it could display foreign characters in text mode unlike CGA cards. It was the serious business card of its day.
- tpmx 3y agoNitpicking: The CGA 8x8 font had a number of "foreign" (non-ascii) characters that could be displayed in 640x200 or 320x200 text modes. All (?) European though. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/viler-int10h/CGA-font-compare/images/compare.gif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/viler-int10h/CGA-font-comp... From IBM's technical manual: * 16 special characters for game support * 15 characters for word-processing editing support * 96 characters for the standard ASCII graphics set * 48 characters for foreign-language support * 48 characters for business block-graphics support (for the drawing of charts, boxes, and tables using single and double lines) * 16 selected Greek characters * 15 selected scientific-notation characters (https://minuszerodegrees.net/oa/OA%20-%20IBM%20Color%20Graphics%20Monitor%20Adapter%20(CGA).pdf https://minuszerodegrees.net/oa/OA%20-%20IBM%20Color%20Graph...) ...although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Internationalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Internationaliza... reaches the conclusion that it only e.g. English, Germany and Swedish are fully supported due the lack of upper-case accented latin characters. Huh, TIL.
- fatneckbeard 3y agoCGA font were never re-programmable, Hercules (after a certain version) were.