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From: acm@grendal.Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Quality Color Text with CGA?
Keywords: CGA Color Text
Message-ID: <130154@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 23:32:52 GMT
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Reply-To: acm@sun.UUCP (Andrew MacRae)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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I've written an application that a number of people want to run.  I wrote
it in plain CGA text mode, making use of color text.  Because I use a
VGA card and monitor at home the text looked fine while I was developing
it, but when I run it on a stock CGA card with an el cheapo CGA RGB monitor
the text is almost unreadable.  I have tried it on an EGA card/monitor
system and it looks fine.

So, my question is... Do my users have to use an EGA card *and* EGA monitor
to use my program or could they just use an EGA monitor hooked up to their
existing CGA cards?

I've visited several computer stores but *none* of them have any machines
with CGA cards anymore.  (Very few of them have EGA monitors either.)  So
if anyone out there has some experience with this please let me know.

						Andrew MacRae

(This query has nothing to do with my employer.)