Hmm, to keep it digital I guess they would have needed to add setting and holding the palette on the monitor.

133MHz wrote: Unlike analog you're stuck with those. Is this saying CGA monitors are only capable of displaying those specific 16 colors?

DOS benchmarks.

Syndicate Plus came out in 94, I don't know how well they matched their release to the CPU of the day but the CPUs released in 94 were the Pentium 90 and 100, pentium 100 is around 53000 cycles in DOSBox. According to mobygames, Syndicate Plus is just Syndicate(1993) bundled with its expansion pack, …

Sure but the 'what if' I'm going on about is something that should have been the standard instead of the mistake that was CGA, not a high priced niche. IBM's argument about saving money for some, two 8k ram chips was $70 back then, they should have put in two sockets for the option to upgrade to do …

Yeah, but plantronics came out in 82, while jr and tandy were late in 84.

OK, so only 16 colors, but what about the CGA palette, is that hard wired by the monitor as well? An aside, seeing as how composite wasn't widely accepted, it's a shame plantronics didn't catch on and overtake CGA as THE early PC standard in 82, doing 320x200 16 colors it would have been matching …

Or is that a CGA card limitation? What I'm getting at is if a CGA card were upgraded with enough memory and palette control would a CGA monitor display whatever it's told? Also curious if a CGA monitor could be driven to do 240 scan lines.