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From: "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at>
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Subject: Re: Did EGA Save PC Gaming?
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:47:25 +0200
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Am 21.07.24 um 20:10 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
> 
> That's the thesis of a recent article*, anyway. I'm not sure I agree
> with it but it's a good excuse for a ramble about old-timey games and
> hardware.
> 
> Not that I need much an excuse to do that.
> 

In fairness, PC gaming followed more or less graphically in the 80s the 
general trend of what was possible.
Before EGA there was TGA which basically was derived from the PC juniors 
graphics capabilities. (Tandy Grahics and sound)
CGA was designed at a time when the only computer with decent graphics 
were the 8 bit ataris, but after that it basically followed the usual 
route and basically surpassed the amiga with VGA. EGA was an 
intermediate step VGA in my opinion was the more important step however 
because it catapulted the PC into the front of graphical capaibilites of 
buyable systems.

Btw. the CGA eyesore stemmed more from the colors used than from the 
limited set of colours on the other hand it was better than the Apple II 
and early Tandy and commodore machines but when it came out it almost 
was bottom of the barrel of what was possible.

IBM thought very likely not about games at all or thought that if 
someone was playing on a PC it they should use the composite mode (home 
computer thinking that you hook your computer to the TV for playing 
games) and the composite mode was rather high end for 1980/82 with its 
possible 16 colors. Problem was no one hooked their PCs to the tv and 
there was only a handful of games using it.