Search for games by video mode
Games are listed by supported video modes. Games that have native support for more than one standard are listed under each supported standard. Video modes that have more than one resolution can be searched by resolution, or all games can be viewed by clicking on the name of the standard.
Text modes
ASCII refers to games that use text modes rather than graphics modes. CGA supports only Modes 0 through 3, and MDA and Hercules support only Mode 7. All newer graphics standards are backwards-compatible with all of these text modes (except MCGA, which doesn't support Mode 7).
| ASCII |
|---|
| Mode 00h 40×25×16gray text* |
| Mode 01h 40×25×16c text |
| Mode 02h 80×25×16gray text* |
| Mode 03h 80×25×16c text |
| Mode 07h 80×25 mono text |
* These modes display in grayscale on a composite monitor and color on an RGB monitor.
Graphics modes
| BIOS Mode | CGA | PCjr/Tandy | EGA | VGA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04h | 320×200×4c | supported | supported | supported |
| 05h | 320×200×4gray* | supported | supported | supported |
| 06h | 640×200×2c | supported | 640×200×2c | supported |
| 08h | -- | 160×200×16c | -- | -- |
| 09h | -- | 320×200×16c | -- | -- |
| 0Ah | -- | 640×200×4c | -- | -- |
| 0Dh | -- | -- | 320×200×16c | 320×200×16c |
| 0Eh | -- | -- | 640×200×16c | supported |
| 0Fh | -- | -- | 640×350 mono | supported |
| 10h | -- | -- | 640×350×16c | 640×350×16c |
| 11h | -- | -- | -- | 640×480 mono |
| 12h | -- | -- | -- | 640×480×16c |
| 13h | -- | -- | -- | 320×200×256c |
| Non-standard | 160×100×16c | -- | -- | Tweaked modes |
* CGA Mode 05h displays in grayscale on composite monitors, but displays an unofficial "third palette" on RGB monitors.
| Hercules | 8514 |
|---|---|
| 720×348 mono | 640×480×256c |
| -- | 1024×768×256c |
Any graphics modes that exceed the capabilities of a VGA graphics card are called Super VGA (SVGA). VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) defined 23 graphics and 5 text modes that allowed for higher resolutions and/or color depths. As of the 2.0 specification, no further modes will be defined, allowing software to use any resolution, provided the graphics card is capable of displaying it.
| Graphics mode | 320×200 | 640×400 | 640×480 | 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 color | Mode 102h | Mode 104h | Mode 106h | |||
| 256 color | Mode 100h | Mode 101h | Mode 103h | Mode 105h | Mode 107h | |
| 15-bit (32K) | Mode 10Dh | Mode 110h | Mode 113h | Mode 116h | Mode 119h | |
| 16-bit (64K) | Mode 10Eh | Mode 111h | Mode 114h | Mode 117h | Mode 11Ah | |
| 24-bit (16M) | Mode 10Fh | Mode 112h | Mode 115h | Mode 118h | Mode 11Bh | |
| Undefined modes | ||||||
APIs
| DOS | Win16 | OS/2 | Win9x |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDI | PM | GDI | |
| Glide | Glide | ||
| WinG | WinG | ||
| DirectX |