- Internal palette size (bit 7) 0 : The palette registers's bits 4 and 5 provide the address bits 4 and 5 to the Color registers. 1 : The C45 field of the Color select register provides the address bits 4 and 5 to the Color registers.
- Pixel clock select (bit 6) Controls the clocking of the PELs to allow eight bits of data to select a color in mode 13h. This field is used in conjunction with the Shift register (SR) field of the Mode register. When the SR field is set to 2, data is loaded into the shift registers in two operations, providing 8 bits of data from each display plane. This value of 2 is operative only during mode 13h. During this mode, the PCS field is set to 1. 0 : The pixel data is changed at each cycle of the dot clock. 1 : The pixel data is changed every second cycle of the dot clock.
- Pixel panning compatibility (bit 5) This field allows a section of the screen to be panned independently from the second section during a split-screen mode of operation.
0 : Prevents a line compare from affecting the output of the Horizontal pixel panning register. 1 : Allows a line compare to affect the output of the Horizontal pixel panning register and the Byte panning field of the Preset row scan register.
- Enable blink or intensify (bit 3) 0 : Use bit 7 of the character attribute code to select a background color. Do not allow blinking. 1 : Use bit 7 of the character attribute code to enable or disable blinking. This is the default mode of operation.
- Enable line graphics character codes (bit 2) (text modes) 0 : Set the ninth dot of the character to the background color, regardless of the character code. 1 : Set the ninth dot of the character to the same value as eighth dot of the character for all graphics line characters.
- Display type (bit 1) 0 : Select color display attributes. 1 : Select IBM monochrome display adapter attributes.
- Graphics/alphanumerics (bit 0) Selects whether the display is in an alphanumeric (text) or graphics mode. In the VGA, this field should be the same value as the G/A field in the Miscellaneous register.