As standard, most games used CGA in BIOS mode 4 (the default BIOS mode for graphics), with the high-intensity version of palette 1, which gave you black, white, light cyan light, and magenta.

[David Murray], aka The 8-Bit Guy, did an interesting video (embedded below the break) on the time line of PC graphics cards from CGA through to EGA. Not only does he explain the different offering… ...

The latest domestically designed and built 600-tonne class Coast Guard Administration (CGA) vessel, the Yong Kang (永康艦), was yesterday formally launched by Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) in ...

Linux started as a PC operating system, so the first Linux console was a PC running in text mode. And to understand the color palette on the PC console, you need to go all the way back to the old CGA ...

EGA was a significant upgrade from low-res, four-color CGA. With EGA, you could go up to 640 x 200 or even (gasp) 640 x 350. You could have 16 colors on the screen at once from a palette of 64.