DOS Days

Hercules Color Card

As a follow-up to their earlier Hercules Graphics Card, the Color Card arrived in December 1985, adding CGA colour capability with a maximum resolution of 640 x 200.

Released December 1985
Bus ISA 8-bit
Chipset N/A
Standards MDA, Hercules, CGA
Memory 64 KB DRAM
RAMDAC N/A
Ports 9-pin DSUB (digital video out)
Part # GB200
FCC IDs -
Price At launch: $245
See Also  

The Hercules Color Card was a CGA-compatible short 8-bit ISA card that was designed to be a direct competitor to IBM's CGA card

 

Board Revisions

 

Competition

 

In the Media

 
Two adverts for the Hercules Color Card: left (1984) and right (1985)

Setting it Up


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Operation Manual
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Original Utility Disk
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