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Date: 18 Nov 90 13:57:02 GMT
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B>      TAndy CM-11 monitor is a EGA like monitor, and DESKMATE has made full
B>use of it. Yet when I program graphics with Turbo-Pascal, the monitor is
B>detected as CGA. Does anybody know how to set graphics mode for CM-11?

Sorry, but the CM-11 is a CGA monitor, with a 640 x 200 x 16-color
resolution.  (See Page 36, 1991 Tandy Computer Catalog.)

Deskmate uses a Tandy-unique video mode (they call it TCGA or TGA)
which is a 16-color CGA mode.  (Video Mode E if I remember right.)
This video mode is found on Tandy 1000-series systems with built-in video
support.

The extra color capability is probably what makes the CM-11 "look"
like it might be an EGA, but it isn't.

A "real" EGA would allow 640 x 200 x 64-color or 640 x 350 x 16-color.

According to the 1990 and 1991 catalog, Radio Shack no longer sells an
EGA monitor at all.  Just CGA (BW & C) and VGA (BW & C).

						
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