Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/ 2009-01-08T14:55:35-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2005-03-20T11:38:04-05:00 Mr. AvenG http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/#256692 Ah, Ok, sorry wizard.<br /> But modern graphics cards, aren't they classified as SVGA? text/html 2005-03-20T04:31:53-05:00 OCGW http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/#256591 Thank you Evan<br /> <br /> OCGW<br /> <br /> PEACE text/html 2005-03-20T03:59:06-05:00 phil http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/#256581 as your mcga question isn't answered yet i'll take the honours <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"><br /> <br /> mcga was introduced by ibm and was a precursor to VGA.. mcga generates analog RGB video signals, where as the earlier standards produced digital RGB signals... so then a bigger range of colours could be displayed... , mcga can display 256 different colours at once from a palette of 262,144 different colours at 640x480 and the &quot;m&quot; stands for &quot;multi&quot; in 'multi-colour graphics array'<br /> <br /> no sorry im not this smart.. .. another 2 minutes 'well' spent on google<br /> <br /> text/html 2005-03-20T03:03:00-05:00 Evan B http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/#256571 I think that OCGW was just saying that those are the max res' of those types. text/html 2005-03-19T22:38:54-05:00 Mr. AvenG http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/#256496 No. That's bulls**t...<br /> SVGA can be lots of different resolutions. And I've seen XGA resolutions of 8xx x something.<br /> <br /> EDIT: The letters just refer to the number of colors. CGA = 4 colors, EGA = 16 colors, VGA+MCGA = 256 colors, SVGA = alot of colors. text/html 2005-03-19T22:31:16-05:00 OCGW http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/#256489 VGA 640x480<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VGA.html" target="_blank">http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VGA.html</a><br /> <br /> SVGA = 800x600<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SVGA.html" target="_blank">http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SVGA.html</a><br /> <br /> XGA = 1024x 768<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/X/XGA.html" target="_blank">http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/X/XGA.html</a><br /> <br /> UXGA = 1600x1200<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/UXGA.html" target="_blank">http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/UXGA.html</a><br /> <br /> OCGW<br /> <br /> PEACE text/html 2005-03-19T22:11:56-05:00 Mr. AvenG http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/41402/#0 Hello people!<br /> I know the following:<br /> CGA = color graphics adapter<br /> EGA = enhanced graphics adapter<br /> VGA = video graphics adapter<br /> SVGA = super VGA<br /> but what is MCGA? I know it is the equivalent of VGA but what is the M?<br /> And XGA? I know XGA is like SVGA but used alot in projectors with weird resolutions, but what is the X?