Collaborate Disseminate
Although new VGA-equipped monitors can still be bought, the old standard is definitely on its way out by now, being replaced by high-speed digital interfaces like HDMI and DisplayPort. It …read more Continue reading Upgraded Graphics Gremlin Adds HDMI Video to Vintage PCs
[David Murray], aka The 8-Bit Guy, did an interesting video (embedded below the break) on the time line of PC graphics cards from CGA through to EGA. Not only does …read more Continue reading CGA Competitors from the 1980s
Did you ever feel like your laptop’s GPU was sub-optimal, or perhaps that your laptop could use a SAS controller? [Rob Rogers] felt like that too, so now he has …read more Continue reading This Laptop Gets All The PCIe Devices
One thing about vintage computers is that they depend greatly on whether or not one can plug a compatible monitor into them. That’s what’s behind [Tube Time]’s Graphics Gremlin, a …read more Continue reading Retro ISA Card Means Old, Slow Computers No Longer Need Old, Heavy Monitors
Feeling nostalgic we presume, [Glen Kleinschmidt] set out to build a 640x480x64 VGA controller card from discrete logic chips. If we ignore the 512Kx8 Cypress SRAM video memory, he succeeds, …read more Continue reading VGA Graphics Card in 74xx Logic
[Ben Eater] is back with the second part of his video series on building a simple video card that can output 200×600 pixels to a display with nothing but a VGA connection, a handful of 74-logic chips and a 10 MHz crystal. In this installment we see how he uses …read more
Continue reading Pushing Pixels To A Display With VGA Without A PC