N00b22@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoWhat is the first graphics card you got?message-squaremessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
arrow-up175arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the first graphics card you got?N00b22@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square121fedilink
minus-squarePetteriPano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-22 months agoIt was a shiny EGA card. On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen. My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours. If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.
minus-squareBroken@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI remember when the EGAs came about. Damn, it was like stepping into the future. But I didn’t have a color monitor so it didn’t matter. I was probably more envious than your friend.
It was a shiny EGA card.
On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.
My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.
If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.
I remember when the EGAs came about. Damn, it was like stepping into the future. But I didn’t have a color monitor so it didn’t matter. I was probably more envious than your friend.