On 8/6/2023 2:51 AM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
A VGA resolution (?), 640x480 resolution so the text doesn't look
messy when I am cURLing a website, for example, or when the --help
parameter is too long.
There seem to be a serious misconception on your end. FreeDOS, like any
DOS, works only in text mode, so you can't just select any graphics mode
on the console. The text modes "look" is determined by the characters
set in the BIOS of the modes available, which in short, would be 80x25
on a monochrome (Hercules) adapter (MODE MONO) and both in
monochrome/"black&white" with 80x25 and 40x25 for ANY color adapter
(CO40/CO80, BW40/BW80).
You can NOT select any graphics resolution (like the VGA 640x480) on the
console/command prompt. DOS is by all means text based and any graphics
mode would be set by a DOS application only, including but not limited
to GUIs like GEM or Windows (1.x, 2.x, 3.x) but it is those applications
responsibility to handle drivers, resolutions and selected fonts...
Ralf
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