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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EGA for RGB?
Message-ID: <2727@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 18:58:21 GMT
References: <1680@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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In article <1680@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:
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<A friend of mine wants to run EGA programs on his IBM-compatible.  He has
<a Tandy RGB monitor connected.  He finds that his EGA programs will not run.
<Are there any drivers, etc. that will allow him to do this?

Well, you left out alot of information, so I will have to guess what is
really in the system.

If it is what I think it is, the PC has a CGA display board and display.
It will NOT run EGA programs, period.  You will have to replace the CGA
display board and monitor with an EGA display board and an EGA monitor.
There is nothing else that can be done.

Even if someone made a TSR that grabbed EGA calls and converted the calls
and data into CGA, the display will still look like CGA.  It may actually
be worse, since CGA only handles something like 4 colors at a time, the
EGA pallette can't be efficently converted.

Time for new hardware.
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