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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re^2: Atypical VGA question.
Message-ID: <1560@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 89 23:59:35 GMT
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goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz) writes:

<In article <1546@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
<>To the best of my knowledge, *no one* other than Hercules
<>supports RAMFont. Pity. 
<>
<>But don't give up hope. Hercules makes a VGA card....
<>It doesn't support the Hercules mono or color card graphics, but
<>it *does* come with a program that lets you toggle between it and
<>your old Hercules card. The active card runs fine and doesn't
<>have any problems. 

<This may sound a bit funny, but is *Hercules* Hercules compatible?
<In other words, does their VGA provide backwards compatibility with
<their own latest version of the Herc card (the Plus)?

The Hercules VGA card only supports *VGA* modes (including CGA & EGA).
It doesn't support Hercules graphics, or RAMFONT. 

I think they decided to go for price over features, as most buyers are
buying Hercules clones that don't have RAMFONT. They seem to feel that
the customers wanted cheap rather than lots of features. So that is
what Hercules is supplying.

But as I note above, you can keep using your Hercules Graphics PLus card
when you install a Hercules VGA. And the docs say the same about the
Hercules Color Card and InColor card.
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