advice on any bright modern (16Mb+) video cards for text mode

From: Sambo (spw_at_eol.ca)
Date: 10/10/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:18:23 -0400

Perhapps there is a way to crank up the GAMA for text mode?
Every new video card since 4Mb RAGE IIC seams progressively darker.
Most games you can't even see anything, sheesh, are they developping them on 1Mb cards? ;)
GRRRRR!!!

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