Technically, my old originally 486-DX2 66 - later upgraded to Pentium 100 and some little known Chinese 8MB PCI graphics card - had a 1MB Cirrus Logic SVGA card before the upgrade, supported with all the required DOS drivers, which was 100% VGA. But it couldn't display Hercules mode properly, only a garbled messed up display if tried.
All other modes (except Tandy of course) were displaying no problem, even some more obscure ones like 640x200x16 (like what the WarWizard game on Abandonia would display natively on true old hardware, not in DosBox though).
640x220, 640x400 (Rise of the Robots for example), 600x350 etc. etc. in all colors from 4 to 256 / monochrome. Tested with one of the old Dos picture display programs, by converting pictures to various resolutions, I used to play around lot with that. The monitor played fine with it, it has max. supported resolution of 1024x768 and up to 24bit colors (16mio), but the Cirrus Logic card could only carry up to 256 colors in 1024x768 and the 16mio colors only in 640x400 and 640x480. Those are all SVGA modes anyway.
But Hercules mode, no way, not even transforming it to CGA resolution(s). Just throwing my 2 cents out there.
Last edited by Scatty; 21-07-2019 at 11:33 PM.
|