Color Graphics Adapter (17680 bytes)
1: ...|IBM]]'s first color graphics card, and the first color [[computer display standard]] for the [[IBM PC]].
3: ...icial, some not) to display more colors, even for graphics display purposes.
5: ...e|right|The 320×200 4 color mode with its default colors — title screen from ''[[Alley Cat]]''.]]
7: ==The CGA color palette==
9: <tr><th colspan="2">'''Full CGA 16-color palette'''<br>(hex values adapted from MC6845 spe...

Multicolor Graphics Adapter (1031 bytes)
1: ... part of the generic [[Video Graphics Array|Video Graphics Array (VGA)]] standard. The [[IBM PS/2]] Model 2...
3: ...lor mode proved most popular for gaming. The 256-color mode in VGA was sometimes referred to as MCGA eve...
5: ...st in terminology, from being the first 256-color adapter for PCs.
9: *[[Color Graphics Adapter|Color Graphics Adapter (CGA)]]
10: *[[Enhanced Graphics Adapter|Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA)]]

Enhanced Graphics Adapter (1895 bytes)
1: ...[[IBM PC AT|PC-AT]], EGA produced a display of 16 colors at a resolution of up to 640&times;350 pixels.
3: ...e with CGA. EGA can drive an [[Monochrome Display Adapter|MDA]] monitor by a special setting of switches on...
5: ...l|Paradise]] boards) featured a range of extended graphics modes (e.g. 640&times;400, 640&times;480 and 720&...
7: [[Category:Computer graphics]]
8: [[Category:Graphics cards]]

Color Television Interface Adapter (384 bytes)
1: ...ip is the successor to the [[Television Interface Adapter|TIA]] chip used in the [[Atari 2600]]. The chip ...

Adapter (1794 bytes)
3: An '''adapter''' or '''adaptor''' is a [[device]] used to match...
5: ...t]]s. Likewise, a [[serial port]] may require an adapter to connect between the old [[DB-25]] type and the...
7: Other adapters may include a device that changes what is passin...
11: Adapters in [[computing]] are even more complex, requirin...
13: [[Universal Serial Bus]] (USB) adapters are available for [[printer]]s, and for [[Comput...

Host adapter (1233 bytes)
1: ...ed to the [[operating system]], controls the host adapter itself.
3: ...to it a unique numerical ID. As a rule, the host adapter appears as SCSI ID 7, which gives it the highest ...
5: The host adapter usually assumes the role of "initiator," in that ...
7: A computer can contain more than one host adapter, which can greatly increase the number of SCSI de...

Terminal adapter (739 bytes)
1: In [[telecommunication]]s, a '''terminal adapter''' is an interfacing device employed at the "R" [...
5: <i>Note:</i> Typically, a terminal adapter will support [[standard]] RJ-11 (or other country...

Adapter pattern (3993 bytes)
1: ...ce)|class]] into one that a client expects. An <i>adapter</i> allows classes to work together that normally...
3: There are two types of adapter patterns:
4: ...ance of the class it wraps. In this situation the adapter makes calls to a physical instance of the wrapped...
5: ...nd the interface that is pre-existing. The Object Adapter pattern is more often used as some popular [[prog...
7: ... be displayed. A link to a tutorial that uses the adapter design pattern is listed in the links below.

Television Interface Adapter (2010 bytes)
1: The '''Television Interface Adapter''' ('''TIA''') is the custom chip that is the hea...
3: ...n hardware for the purpose of generating the game graphics. Due to the cost of memory at the time TIA has n...
5: ...uplicated or mirrored across the other half and 5 graphics objects consisting of:
13: ...he positioning of the graphical objects and their color.
21: ...], and again with [[George's Television Interface Adapter]].

Host Bus Adapter (787 bytes)
1: ...eral terms, a '''Host Bus Adapter (HBA)''' is any adapter that allows a [[computer bus]] to attach to anoth...

SCSI host adapter (3128 bytes)
1: ...d disk]] [[drive]] or [[CD-ROM]] is that the host adapter is responsible for transferring data between the ...
3: ...sive and it is more usual to retain the SCSI host adapter as a separate component which can be easily repla...
5: SCSI host adapters traditionally fall into two broad classes:
9: ...xpected to reduce the usage of high-end SCSI host adapters, but there is no current expectation that they w...
11: ...table over the years. At any given time, the host adapter [[market]] usually comprises the largest single m...

Monochrome Display Adapter (2935 bytes)
1: ...] for the [[IBM PC|PC]]. The MDA did not have any graphics mode of any kind; it only featured a single [[mon...
8: ==Competing adapters==
9: ...ere were two commonly available competing display adapters:
10: ... and/or color, IBM offered its ''[[Color Graphics Adapter]]'' (''CGA'', also ''CGA card''), launched at the...
11: ... kind, the Hercules adapter's offer of monochrome graphics without sacrificing MDA-equivalent text quality m...

Peripheral Interface Adapter (970 bytes)
1: The '''Peripheral Interface Adapter''' (PIA) is a [[peripheral]] [[integrated circuit...

Analog Telephony Adapter (988 bytes)
1: ...sually takes the form of a small box with a power adapter, one [[Ethernet]] port, and one or more [[FXS]] t...

George's Television Interface Adapter (845 bytes)
1: '''George's Television Interface Adapter''' is the successor to the [[CTIA]] chip used in ...
4: * 256 colors instead of 128. This was done by increasing the...
5: ...de/luminance value, and the last one allows for 9 colors of any hue/luminance.

S3 Graphics (637 bytes)
1: ... This compression method has been used within the graphics [[API]]s [[OpenGL]] and [[DirectX]].

Graphics (201 bytes)
1: The term '''graphics''' refers to images; e.g. a drawing, [[photograph...
4: * [[Computer graphics]]

2D computer graphics (11718 bytes)
1: '''2D computer graphics''' is the [[computer]]-based generation of [[digi...
3: ...re direct control of the image than [[3D computer graphics]] (whose approach is more akin to [[photography]]...
5: ...llustrations are often stored or transmitted as [[graphics file format|2D graphic files]].
7: ...ices]]. These were largely supplanted by [[raster graphics|raster-based devices]] in the following decades. ...
9: ==2D graphics techniques==

Graphics card (4410 bytes)
1: ....jpg|right|thumb|250px|A [[GeForce 4]] 4200-based graphics card]]
2: A '''graphics card''' or '''video card''' is a component of a [...
5: As was in the past, many graphics cards are separate devices, attached to a [[IBM P...
7: ...l and such things will be fine with an integrated graphics chip.
9: ...(graphics processing units). The longterm goal of graphics cards manufacturers (and game developers) appears...

Graphics tablet (4373 bytes)
1: [[Image:graphics_tablet.jpg||right|]]
5: ...a relatively simple method of inputing hand-drawn graphics or [[art]] into a [[computer]] in real time. They...
7: Early graphics tablets, known as '''spark tablets''', used a sty...
9: The first practical graphics tablet was the '''RAND Tablet''', also known as t...
11: The final evolution in the graphics tablet was the pressure-sensitive pad. In these d...

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