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Line 1: Even though VGA is old, many modern graphics cards are compatible with it, including NVidia and ATI cards. This can make writing a VGA driver rather attractive. The amount of compatibility varies however, so never assume a card is compatible without proper hardware detection. ▼ Apart from real machines, several emulators and virtual machines provide VGA emulation: [[Bochs]], [[QEMU]] and [[Microsoft Virtual PC]] to name a few. After 2011 video card manufacturers begun to drop VGA compatibility in favour of [[GOP]] under [[UEFI]] (VirtualBox UEFI and TianoCore both supports that).▼ {{Video warning}} ▲Even though VGA is old, many modern graphics cards are compatible with it, including NVidia and ATI cards. This can make writing a VGA driver rather attractive. The amount of compatibility varies however, so never assume a card is compatible without proper hardware detection. ▲Apart from real machines, several emulators and virtual machines provide VGA emulation: [[Bochs]], [[QEMU]] and [[Microsoft Virtual PC]] to name a few. After 2011 video card manufacturers begun to drop VGA compatibility in favour of [[GOP]] under [[UEFI]] (VirtualBox UEFI and TianoCore both supports that). == Overview == Line 973: * http://tinyvga.com/vga-timing — VGA Signal Timing * http://www.osdever.net/FreeVGA/vga/vga.htm — includes some things not explained here [[Category:VGA]] [[Category:Video]] [[Category:Hardware]]