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, too &#… ...

A true VGA card is an Tseng ET-4000 in an 486 PC, for example. Or an Trident 8900 in a 386.. An S3 Trio 64 is borderline already. It’s half VGA core, half 2D GUI accelerator.