Hello people!
I know the following:
CGA = color graphics adapter
EGA = enhanced graphics adapter
VGA = video graphics adapter
SVGA = super VGA
but what is MCGA? I know it is the equivalent of VGA but what is the M?
And XGA? I know XGA is like SVGA but used alot in projectors with weird resolutions, but what is the X?

VGA 640x480

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VGA.html

SVGA = 800x600

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SVGA.html

XGA = 1024x 768

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/X/XGA.html

UXGA = 1600x1200

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/UXGA.html

OCGW

PEACE

No. That's bulls**t...
SVGA can be lots of different resolutions. And I've seen XGA resolutions of 8xx x something.

EDIT: The letters just refer to the number of colors. CGA = 4 colors, EGA = 16 colors, VGA+MCGA = 256 colors, SVGA = alot of colors.

I think that OCGW was just saying that those are the max res' of those types.

as your mcga question isn't answered yet i'll take the honours

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 "m" stands for "multi" in 'multi-colour graphics array'

no sorry im not this smart.. .. another 2 minutes 'well' spent on google

Thank you Evan

OCGW

PEACE

Ah, Ok, sorry wizard.
But modern graphics cards, aren't they classified as SVGA?