Hi!
Assuming that you just want to have MORE text on your screen,
without actually wanting to use graphics mode, you can select
quite a few modes with MODE CON or with various VESA tools.
For example in dosemu2, the following works just fine:
MODE con cols=132 lines=60
This will search for 132x60 character VESA mode and use it.
In dosemu2, VESA text modes 80x60, 132x25, 132x43 and 132x60
are available, but others can be available on other graphics
cards or in other emulators or virtual computers, dosbox,
bochs, qemu, vmware, and so on.
For non-VESA modes, you can for example use:
MODE con co80,50
That will select a VGA compatible 80x50 text mode.
Sometimes MODE will get modes wrong depending on from
which mode to which you transition. For example it may
end up in 80 column modes when asking for 132 columns,
depending on how many lines you want and had before.
It helps to experiment: Often, you can help mode to get
into the desired mode by first selecting a similar, easier
mode, so it can find out how more easily to go further.
For modes with more than 132 columns, you need VESA tools
which make fewer assumpions about things than MODE does.
Regards, Eric
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