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Errata: VGA was actually introduced in 1987, not in 1989!
German version of this video here (including a small scene featuring my Amstrad PC1640 showing Ultima V EGA on a CGA monitor):
• EGA am C128? Sieht gro...
We compare capabilities of EGA graphics cards with the VDC-Chip.
Not surprisingly, the VDC-Chip holds up pretty well.
Programming is done in Commodore Basic 7, introducing a 30-year old Basic extension called VDC-Basic.
A german version of this video is in the works.
Sources shown in the video:
github.com/The8BitTheory/vdc-ega
VDC-Basic documentation, sources and binaries:
github.com/The8BitTheory/vdc-...
CGA-Low Resolution Video:
• C128‘s VDC vs IBM XT‘s...
The video about RLE Encoding in Commodore Basic:
• C128 Basic 100x faster...
8-Bit Show and Tell KZfaq Channel: @8_Bit
The EGA Palette is taken from moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/...
The Commodore 128 image has been created by Evan Amos and has been taken from de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodo...