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the articles speaks continuously of vga modes, but never says the mode number for that mode (or that other modes can change away from vga altogether)

the article gives only a discussion which is useless and cannot be used, the references likewise (no mode numbers, no assembler or C code to operate, and references are wanna-be's - not manufacturer documentation or industry documentation from "the people who adhered to the standard"

a good article (and past apparently deleted content!!!) either:

(1) gives history, associations responsible, location of documentation, uses in industry and home

OR

(2) only says what it intends to describe in a usable manner (ie, with code examples, which many wikipedia articles have)

this appears to be an attack (the direction to this page, the removal of past information) by cheap video card makers WHO DID NOT PUT REAL VGA ON NEWER CARDS TO SAVE MONEY - thus the attack is denial of information and denial it's still "THE STANDARD THAT WORKS MORE WIDELY THAN ANY OTHER TO THIS DAY" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.207.25 (talk) 02:07, 28 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

VGA connector has no notability aside from the VGA video standard and the non-redundant portions ought to be merged here for context. --Wtshymanski (talk) 19:41, 25 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Huh, "VGA connector" is a commonly used term and is noteworthy by itself. As there is enough information for both articles I can't see a good reason why these two topics should be merged.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 18:08, 31 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

which is correct? Video Graphics Array or Video Graphic Array? DerpGunKV2 (talk) 10:46, 21 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

The one with an s.

The option of using 8-bits colour channels in the palette was introduced in 1991 with VBE 1.2. The first card that supported this (that I know of) was the Mach32, on which 8-bit colour channels could be enabled by setting bit 14 on port 7AEEh.

8-bits colour technically isn't a VGA thing, so I'm unsure where to incorporate it, but the article explicitly talks about 8-bit colour channels, so it should be mentioned that it's a VBE thing.

I spent some time trying to figure out why those VGA images greatly exceeded anything I could ever do with VGA16 despite having a inordinate amount of time to spend on it around 2000-2001. I counted six levels of step between black and white in Birds_VGA16.png, but the standard VGA palette only has four. I then thought OK maybe it's a simulation of what an image viewer free to load a custom palette per image could do, so I downloaded the image and asked ImageMagic and no way that's a 16 color image. An online tool says it has 50,000 colors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.220.52.199 (talk) 21:32, 31 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Standard VGA never had the video bandwidth to display 640 pixels at 8 bit depth (256 colors), so all info on that is fake. Pinball Fantasies is flipping two pages at 360x350 (126 KiB VRAM each), by programming registers for both EGA compatibility (350 lines) and text mode (widening output to the half of 720 pixels). These tweaks don't work reliably on newer cards, as they were in fact never intended for the 256 color mode. ~2026-26698-86 (talk) 15:55, 2 May 2026 (UTC)Reply