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First post, by Tronix

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We have recently made a new ISA8 video card based on the old element base (triple intel 8275 CRT controllers), which can work only in text modes.

If anyone is interested, here are photos

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Since this video card works only in text modes, this emulator was written for it. However, it works well in DosBox and possibly just with ordinary VGA video cards.

Original CGA screen:
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DosBox 80x50 mode:
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Playing KARATEKA on real hardware:
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YouTube AlleyCat DosBox footage: https://youtu.be/nVcuyrmCpcw

I don't know its real use without the original text-mode ISA8 video card, probably just for lulz. So, you firts run CGAEMU.COM then run your CGA game. For remove emulator from memory specify "-" switch ("CGAEMU.COM -")

Direct download link: https://github.com/Tronix286/cgaemu/blob/master/CGAEMU.COM
Repo with sources: https://github.com/Tronix286/cgaemu

https://github.com/Tronix286/

Reply 1 of 2, by ViTi95

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Using half width characters you can double the resolution vertically or horizontally (80x100, or 160x50), maybe it makes the screen look better. It will be a little bit slower, but for sure will look better!

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Reply 2 of 2, by Tronix

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ViTi95 wrote on 2022-01-07, 09:21:

Using half width characters you can double the resolution vertically or horizontally (80x100, or 160x50), maybe it makes the screen look better. It will be a little bit slower, but for sure will look better!

I am using half-width and half-tall characters together (ascii 220 and 221). The same alghorithm named "HalfBlockColor" here: https://sol.gfxile.net/textfx/index.html

https://github.com/Tronix286/