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Hi there, I am getting a PS/2 Model 56 with XGA2 graphics.
Is there a Demo/Intro that benefits from the XGA graphics?

Thx
Doc

I can't think of any.. XGA was pretty expensive when it came out, and mostly used by businesses. Hi-res/SuperVGA (640x480x256 and up) PC demos didn't really become a thing until the mid-90s when VESA extensions and UniVBE came out.

Is the "hardware-curser" usable as "hardware-sprite" ?

Just think about how awesome it would be to announce the effect: HARDWARE SPRITE. Ooh. 7800 phong polys is nothing!

It's a unique feature of xga, or am I wrong here?

Most of the 1990s SVGA cards had support for mouse cursor sprite (e.g. Cirrus Logic 54xx or whatever it was what I had in 1994).

I don't think one monochrome sprite is that impressive for demo use.

you are right XGA 1 or 2 are very unique and mostly not supported. VGA programs detect XGA cards with 1MB as 256KB, software that supports the MCA versions are OK but there is only a small number of supported software. If you have an IBM PS2/E with XGA2 on ISA you are pretty much out of luck even for XGA-Supported software which seems to be MCA only. There are indeed some Hires VGA games that work with tricks (links386/sc2000), otherwise you get a blank screen and/or garbage colors. XGA has a very limited VESA support (only MCA), no fast/fully accelerated win9x drivers and are not supported in winG or directX. Some VGA dos-demos do indeed work, some don't.