Thank you.
Got the pictures of the monitor from my supplier. Can somebody help me identify it?
Looks like my hercules monitor. How can it work with a CGA adapter?

I had an identical looking Amdek monitor, came with a matching 286 computer.

The screen had round DIN inputs that were adapted to 9 pin on the pc side.

The PC could run In Hercules or CGA modes and the screen (after a little, H adjustment) fires right up in either mode.

So I would say that screen isn’t normal MDA.

Looking at the 9 pin video cable all the wires are there, many of my truly monochrome MDA screens were physically missing some pins.

Yes, looks like one of those "dual" MDA/CGA monitors.

Grzyb wrote:

Yes, looks like one of those "dual" MDA/CGA monitors.

Yes, that is likely. These were somewhat common with XT clones, since many clone videocards also supported CGA and Hercules.
I remember a friend of mine had one that could even invert the colours, so your text would look black-on-white.

Scali wrote:

I remember a friend of mine had one that could even invert the colours, so your text would look black-on-white.

The pictured monitor has a "NOR/REV" switch on the back - if I had to guess, it probably does just that 😀

Calvero wrote:

Miphee wrote:

Does anybody know this game?

It's Barbarian

Not to be confused with the much cooler Palace game of the same name released the same year!

Thank you for all your answers. I just bought another one with amber display, it is hooked to the same CGA card.
It doesn't have the NOR/REV switch. I'll try one of my CGA cards when it arrives.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Not to be confused with the much cooler Palace game of the same name released the same year!

You mean this, don't you? - https://www.mobygames.com/game/death-sword/screenshots
Heh, the PC variant is CGA only and looks awful.
A fine example of the era when PCs were already common enough to justify porting games to them, but not yet considered serious gaming machines - hence the poor quality of those ports...

Grzyb wrote:

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Not to be confused with the much cooler Palace game of the same name released the same year!

You mean this, don't you? - https://www.mobygames.com/game/death-sword/screenshots

With the legendary box art, featuring Maria Whittaker: https://image.isu.pub/090223135443-6e9f6b915f … jpg/page_46.jpg

Does anybody know the function of that NOR/REV switch? It's on my other monochrome too.

Miphee wrote:

Does anybody know the function of that NOR/REV switch? It's on my other monochrome too.

I strongly assume that VileRancour is right and that it stands for NORMAL/REVERSED (i.e. inverted):

VileRancour wrote:

Scali wrote:

I remember a friend of mine had one that could even invert the colours, so your text would look black-on-white.

The pictured monitor has a "NOR/REV" switch on the back - if I had to guess, it probably does just that 😀

Sorry I missed that, thank you!