When it comes to ancient computers, VGA has fairly demanding requirements ... Yes, it’s a 1980s-era graphics card that requires a fan. The card draws about 3W, or about two percent of a modern ...

Feeling nostalgic we presume, [Glen Kleinschmidt] set out to build a 640x480x64 VGA controller card from discrete logic chips. If we ignore the 512Kx8 Cypress SRAM video memory, he succeeds ...