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From: perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Hercules Color Card
Message-ID: <767@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 00:12:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 00:12:28 1986
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> 	I own a GENUINE Hercules Color Graphics Adapter
> 	( no clones here!...... huh? Isn't the HCGA a clone? :-> )
> 	The ONLY incompatibility I have ever found is a game called :
> 		Lode Runner  from "Broderbund" (c)*
> 	I've seen it function on a "all standard" IBM but it doesn't
> 	work properly on my IBM w/ HCGA.
> 
> 	Since more people write software to be HCGA compatible it is
> 	probably a good bet to go with one rather than pay IBM's price
> 	even if the HCGA is more expensive than the clones of it.

As a video game author (Championship Golf, from Activision's GameStar
division), I have to say you're all wet.

I've considered lots of color graphics cards in trying to make my
game portable (such as IBM EGA in CGA mode, Compaq CGA, PCjr, Tandy
1000, Texas Instruments BusinessPro), but the Hercules color card never
even came up, either in my game or in other games I know about.

I've found that Compaq is compatible with IBM's CGA except that Compaq
doesn't flicker, and everything else (IBM EGA included) is inferior in
terms of compatibility.


SUMMARY: Hercules standardized monochrome graphics, but nobody gives a
	 flying hoot about their color card as a "standard".
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,okstate}!bnrmtv!perkins        --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.