Re: [TCLUG:13550] Dual-Headed setup (Free hardware)

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> The video card is a full-length, 8 bit ISA card (although, part of the
> card is just "extended to fit" the full length of the card - so you could
> probably cut some of the extra breadboard off, if your ISA slots are not
> full length)
> 
> The Hercules card itself is capable of SOME monochrome graphics
> capabilities (and I think the XFree86 Mono server does support the card).
> As I understand it though, current Linux software is not able to use the
> graphics abilities of both the herc & another card at the same time - only
> text mode herc with graphics on a 'normal' card.  (or, just herc by
> itself)

Are you sure its a Herc? If its that huge, It could be the original IBM
MDA display adapter. No graphics, just text...

It may be the original Herc card, which was also pretty huge, though I'm
pretty sure it was slightly smaller than IBM's... Does it say Hercules
on it? :)

The only one's I've seen myself rather than in really old PC tech books
are newer much more integrated half-size clone cards, single chip with
some RAM... (Have a few laying about here, plus one monitor, my firewall
used to be running on it before I replaced it with an Alpha...)

And someone's probably going to ask... The herc added monochrome
bitmapped graphics to IBM's MDA, IIRC the resolution was 720x384...