VGA text mode was introduced in 1987 by IBM as part of the VGA standard for its IBM PS/2 computers. Its use on IBM PC compatibles was widespread through...
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border between text mode and graphical programs can sometimes be fuzzy, especially on the PC's VGA hardware, because many later text mode programs tried...
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Video Graphics Array (redirect from VGA)
capabilities, continue to implement common VGA graphics modes and interfaces to the present day. The VGA analog interface standard has been extended...
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notorious for its emulation of certain EGA/VGA text mode features, particularly random access to the text buffer, even if the application runs in a window...
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Linux console (category Text user interface)
any VGA-style text mode, but the kernel itself has very limited means to set these modes up. SVGATextMode helps to enable more complex text modes than...
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Mode 13h is the standard 256-color mode on VGA graphics hardware introduced in 1987 with the IBM PS/2. It has a resolution of 320 × 200 pixels. It was...
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IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (redirect from Video mode 7)
video connectors List of defunct graphics chips and card companies VGA text mode Elliott, John C. (2005-11-06). "Monochrome Display Adapter: Notes"....
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hardware-implemented screen text attributes; particularly, VGA compatible text mode describes such text attributes on PC compatibles. Also, a text attribute may refer...
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VESA BIOS Extensions (redirect from Super VGA BIOS Extension)
framebuffer from protected mode without "thunking" down to real mode. This is implemented using a new Function 0Ah. Super VGA page flipping Allows higher...
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associated connectors. VGA may also refer to: VGA (resolution), 640×480 graphics display resolution VGA connector VGA text mode Spike Video Game Awards...
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Display resolution standards (redirect from Quarter VGA)
1980s. QVGA is not a standard mode offered by the VGA BIOS, even though VGA and compatible chipsets support a QVGA-sized Mode X. The term refers only to...
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Drivers". www.phoronix.com. Retrieved 24 January 2024. "AMD Guided Autonomous Mode Submitted For Linux 6.4". www.phoronix.com. Retrieved 24 January 2024. Kroah-Hartman...
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Windows Console (category Text user interface)
hardware text mode and uploads a raster font to the video adapter; analogous to a text-based system console. This early full-screen mode only supports VGA-compatible...
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DisplayPort (redirect from Dual-Mode DisplayPort)
external passive adapter, enabling compatibility mode and converting the signal from 3.3 to 5 volts. For analog VGA/YPbPr and dual-link DVI, a powered active...
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required to support one baseline display mode, "low pixel format" (640 × 480 at 60 Hz). Like modern analog VGA connectors, the DVI connector includes pins...
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ATI Wonder (redirect from VGA Wonder)
EGA text and graphics modes (requires multisync monitor) Added support for 16-colour VGA modes Sources Rebadged VGA Edge lacking the analogue VGA port...
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List of 16-bit computer color palettes (category Articles lacking in-text citations from April 2019)
time in both 640×480 and 1024×768 graphic modes. It does not support compatibility with VGA modes, but a VGA card is usually already installed and bridged...
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Multi-Color Graphics Array (category Articles lacking in-text citations from May 2023)
sometimes referred to as HD-15. MCGA is similar to VGA in that it had a 256-color mode (the 256-color mode in VGA was sometimes referred to as MCGA) and uses...
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List of computer display standards (redirect from Full Wide VGA)
E.g. QVGA, a term for a 320×240 resolution, half the width and height of VGA, hence the quarter total resolution. The "Q" prefix usually indicates "Quad"...
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combining characters, complex scripts, etc., are not involved. The text mode of standard (VGA-compatible) PC graphics hardware is built around using an 8-bit...
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typically used for the mouse pointer. Register-compatible with VGA Adds a 132 column text mode and high color in 640 × 480 Requires a minimum of 80386 host...
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and is programmable. CRTC-Registers bit meaning tables for VGA, EGA, CGA, Hercules, SVGA, Mode X." "NES NTSC Video". NESdev.org. 2024-06-04. "NES PAL Video"...
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Enhanced Graphics Adapter (section Modes)
compatible third-party cards were manufactured, and EGA graphics modes continued to be supported by VGA and later standards. EGA was introduced in October 1984...
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computer category, except for Early Macintosh PCs, are generally based on the VGA standard and use a video chip known as a Graphics Processing Unit. Very early...
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to Use 386, InfoWorld, April 6, 1987 Desqview Update Supports EGA, VGA Graphics Modes, InfoWorld, May 18, 1987 Desqview 2.0 Beefs Up MS-DOS Multitasking...
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AX architecture (redirect from AX-VGA/S)
IBM PC/AT and its clones to display Japanese text without any additional hardware using a standard VGA card. Soon after, AX disappeared and the decline...
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ANSI escape code (redirect from ANSI set mode)
PCs and leaving them in text mode, which used a 16-entry color table. The colors are different in the EGA/VGA graphic modes. Seen in Windows XP through...
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a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion...
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pixels-per-character version, and the VGA contained a 9×16 version.[citation needed] All these display adapters have text modes in which each character cell contains...
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