A friend of mine had an Amstrad PC, which had some special graphics modes "better" than CGA that maybe four games supported. That was a blast!
At least with VGA everything converged, and you got the VESA standards, and by then it was just a matter of adding more and more VRAM to increase resolution and colour space.
But it's insane to think about how far we've come. Those old video cards had kilobytes of VRAM, VGA started going into megabytes, and my current graphics card has gigabytes.
At least with VGA everything converged, and you got the VESA standards, and by then it was just a matter of adding more and more VRAM to increase resolution and colour space.
But it's insane to think about how far we've come. Those old video cards had kilobytes of VRAM, VGA started going into megabytes, and my current graphics card has gigabytes.