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[-] Ariselas@piefed.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

Back in my day all we had was ADVGA.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I liked the upgrade to ADHDMI.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

VGA is also the name of a specific resolution, it just happens to also share the name with a connector. The whole letter soup for resolutions was a dumb idea and I’m glad it died out. For example, did you know the Game Boy Advanced had a screen with HQVGA resolution? No, none of the letters stand for what you think they do. Of course that means Half Quarter Video Graphics Array.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_display_resolutions

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

But original VGA could be 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.

Also I think it supported a 320x240, and then later on it would support much higher resolutions.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Again, thats the stupid part. VGA means only 640x480. SVGA is 800x600 and QVGA is 1024x768.

All of those resolutions can be successfully sent through a….VGA cable.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Didn’t EGA also support some of those resolutions?

[-] 24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is exactly why the acronym for display standards was so terrible.

The Extended Graphics Adapter (abbreviated XGA, obviously) by IBM was introduced with multiple resolutions available, named XGA and various deritives.

EGA came earlier and was colloquially used to refer to 16-color display modes, but wasn't used to define a specific resolution.

More specifically, EGA was a color palatte that had 64 colors available, 16 of which could be displayed at one time.

And then there's CGA which came prior to EGA, but like it referred to color modes rather than resolution.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Even CGA had at least a couple of different modes because you had the mode with four colors. But you also had a higher resolution mode that was just black and white. Or maybe it was black in one of the colors. I don't remember. It's been too long now. But even CJ had at least two different resolutions

[-] los0220@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I would rather have ADDP

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta support ADDP for its open ecosystem

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to blow past escalating to EGA and CGA and go obscure to ADHerculesD. Hercules was a monochrome system that could emulate CGA/EGA in monochrome with different brightness levels :)