Re: Identify this card?

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

> Good read... 6845's are used in all kinds of wacky early 80's 
> PCBs (including arcade games),

puritan_2076@yahoo.com (Leon Howell) writes:
> Huh? Arcade games?  I don't remember any B&W arcade games. Are you
> implying that this chip is capable of color? If so, *Thousands* of
> Apple & non-Apple users might be interested in a hardware hack! :)

The 6845 doesn't know anything about either monochrome or color.  It's
perfectly happy to let you do either, since you have to supply the video
encoding circuitry yourself either way.

For example, the IBM's first color display card for the PC, the CGA,
used the 6845 for both text and graphics.