The Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA ... was no hardware graphics acceleration; the VGA standard was just a way to write values to RAM and spit them out on a monitor. Still, all of the pre-VGA ...

To find out which might be best for you ... devices that have other types of connections, such as VGA, DVI, and HDMI, using an adapter or adapter cable per any additional requirements.

As [Mike] points out, this requires a lot of IO pins, and many development boards only support 8 bit VGA. Analog VGA is being replaced with DVI-D and HDMI on many devices nowadays, so it would be ...