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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need Info on Hercules Graphics Card
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Date: 28 Dec 87 06:47:02 GMT
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Summary: Check before you buy Turbo Basic for Hercules Support

> support.  I have heard that the latest version of Turbo BASIC (from Borland)
> includes such support.  You can probably buy it for about $60, and it will
> certaily be worth the money -- much better than IBM BASIC.

In my review of my Turbo Basic manual, I see only support for CGA and
EGA graphics, not support for monochrome graphics (Hercules).  You 
might check with Borland to make sure.  In Microsoft QuickBasic 4.0
I cannot find reference to Hercules support in the three manuals
(perhaps I missed it), but the outer package states, "New! Support
for Hercules graphics cards".  I wouldn't sell the Hercules emulators,
such as simcga.arc and hgcibm and (a commercial one, can't remember
the name) short.  I have used simcga with simple basic graphics pro-
grams with some success.

--Mike Volow, Psychiatry, Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center
  Durham, NC, 27712             919 383 3568
  mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP