gloriouscow
Tristan@gloriouscow
I've been pricing CGA cards for months like someone shopping for cars.
"Vga mode, low profile, good price, but I don't trust the brand"
I have too many cool CGA monitors and only 8088 computers with built in CGA cards. It's immoral.
@Tristan what do you have that has built in cga?
@gloriouscow A tandy 1000 and tandy 1000SX. I actually have a full length 5150 CGA card still in the box, but its waaaay too big for my IBM 386 PS/2 or my pentiums.
@Tristan oh but those are TGA not CGA
That aliexpress CGA card isn't terrible and would probably fit
@gloriouscow
True, TGA it is. To be honest, I always though Tandy 1000s had an onboard TGA card and a seperate onboard CGA card that used the same DB9 connector. Didn't realize the TGA chip was doing the CGA too.
True, TGA it is. To be honest, I always though Tandy 1000s had an onboard TGA card and a seperate onboard CGA card that used the same DB9 connector. Didn't realize the TGA chip was doing the CGA too.
@Tristan It pretty much is a copy of the PCjr's VGA (no, not that VGA) except they did the very smart thing of letting you move the 128K memory window to the top of your RAM so that DOS wasn't running out of the wait state tar pit
@Tristan It is pretty funny how Tandy just looked at the PCjr and stole all the good ideas while just not doing all the dumb shit IBM did and surprise, a commercially successful computer was born
@gloriouscow
Im a sicko that likes infrared peripherals, but the PC JR chicklet keyboard is cursed and the main reason I turned down buying one 10ish years ago.
Im a sicko that likes infrared peripherals, but the PC JR chicklet keyboard is cursed and the main reason I turned down buying one 10ish years ago.
we did a little thread on that not too long ago