Feeling nostalgic we presume, [Glen Kleinschmidt] set out to build a 640x480x64 VGA controller card from discrete logic ... Check out his analog computer “bouncing ball” project we covered ...

The VGA card in the computer is cabled to the pass-through circuit on the high-res adapter. When high-resolution is not used, the card's driver causes the VGA signals to pass through to the monitor.

Making a microcontroller speak to a VGA monitor has been a consistent project in our sphere for years, doing the job for which an IBM PC of yore required a plug-in ISA card. Couldn’t a ...

A plug-in card in a desktop computer that performs graphics processing ... graphics controller, VGA adapter and VGA card have all been terms for the plug-in board that creates the screen images.