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Conina on 28 February 2024
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HoloDust said:
Conina said:

I'd say even before the PS1, when the first SVGA games arrived (640x400 or 640x480 resolution, quadruple of the VGA resolution) and the co-processor of the 80386 was used.

VGA was 640x480. SVGA is 800x600. Which is quite a difference from resolutions of consoles in those days (320x224 at best).

VGA 640x480 was limited to 16 colors, most games chose 320x200 with 256 colors instead.

So you needed an SVGA card for (at least) 640x400 with 256 colors. Higher resolutions and higher color depth was theoretically possible, but very taxing on the hardware, So most of the first SVGA games stayed below 800x600.