Post #3331374
2026-06-16 07:48 UTC
Remember the #Hercules monochrome ISA graphics adapter?
I had one in the first PC I used – about ~37 years ago.
The driver for it was now removed from #Linux for Version 7.2: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/37a91b995952a556a6eb90c31736ee773b86999c
#LinuxKernel #Linux
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@dasfrottier@mastodon.social 2026-06-16 08:18
@kernellogger@hachyderm.io My school back in the 90ies had a bunch of – then outdated – Commodore PC 10 machines. Those had Hercules graphics and amber monochrome screens. I remember the weird resolution, painting lines, circles etc with Borland Pascal.
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@nickzoic@aus.social 2026-06-16 08:53
@kernellogger@hachyderm.io Damnit that was my dream setup for a while there, you could do cool graphics mode shit on the main VGA card and still read the debugging output on the HGA. (I don't quite remember how that worked now but anyway, that's why people loved them)