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Popular IBM PC programs at the time (such as Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, AutoCAD computer-aided drafting, Pagemaker and Xerox Ventura desktop publishing, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.0) came with their own drivers to use the Hercules graphics mode. Hercules included extensions to IBM BASICA to add HGC support, called HBASIC, and Hercules cards came with a 'GRAPH X' application which enhanced the BIOS by adding Hercules graphics-mode support and even geometric drawing primitives. Unlike the MDA and CGA, the PC BIOS provided no intrinsic support for the HGC. Graphics mode required new techniques to use. In text mode, the HGC appears exactly like an MDA card. power-on) so that the card would not conflict with a CGA or other color card at address B8000h. Another bit, in a configuration register exclusive to the HGC, determined whether the second 32 KB of RAM on the HGC was accessible to the CPU at the base address B8000h.

Either page could be selected for display by setting or resetting a single bit in the Mode Control Register. The 64 KB RAM of the HGC could hold two graphics display pages. Also, to represent 720 pixels per line instead of 640 as on the CGA, each scanline had 90 bytes of pixel data instead of 80. However, because in the Hercules graphics mode there were more than 256 scanlines and the display buffer size was nearly 32 KB (instead of 16 KB as in all CGA graphics modes), four interleaved banks were used in the Hercules mode instead of two as in the CGA modes. The Hercules graphics mode had a lot in common with the CGA high-resolution (640×200) two-color mode: the video buffer contained a packed-pixel bitmap (eight pixels per byte, one bit per pixel) with the same byte format, including the pixel-to-bit mapping and byte order, as the CGA two-color graphics mode, and the video buffer was split into interleaved banks, each 8 KB in size, as in the CGA graphics modes. The text mode of the Hercules card used the same signal timing as the MDA text mode. 80×25 text mode with 9×14 pixel font (effective resolution of 720×350).The Hercules card provided two modes: an MDA-compatible monochrome text mode, and a pixel-addressable graphics mode at 720x348. Simulated Hercules image with the correct aspect ratio (as would be seen on a 4:3 monitor) The Hercules actually ran at two slightly different frequencies depending on whether it was running in text or graphics mode, due to the slight difference in horizontal resolution. Nominally, the Hercules card provides a horizontal scanning frequency of 18.425 ☐.500 kHz, and 50 Hz vertical. The video output is 5V TTL, as with the MDA card. Like the MDA, it included a parallel interface for attaching a printer. The original HGC was an 8-bit ISA card with 64KB of RAM, visible on the board as eight 4164 RAM chips, and a DE-9 output compatible with the IBM monochrome monitor used with the MDA. The founder of Hercules Computer Technology, Van Suwannukul, created the Hercules Graphics Card so that he could work on his doctoral thesis on an IBM PC using the Thai alphabet, which was impossible at the low resolution of CGA or the fixed character set of MDA. These adapters were quickly found to be inadequate by the market, creating a demand for a card that offered high resolution graphics without compromising on text quality. CGA offered low-resolution (320x200) color graphics and medium-resolution (640x200) monochrome graphics, while MDA offered a sharper text mode (equivalent of 720×350) but had no per-pixel addressing modes and had a fixed character set. When the IBM Personal Computer was launched in 1981, it had two graphics cards available, the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and the Monochrome Display And Printer Adapter (MDA). The Hercules Graphics Card was released to fill a gap in the IBM video product lineup.

Multimon ng two tone detect