On 8/6/23 23:34, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote:
DOS is using *text *mode, you just can't select a*graphics *mode and expect to get text output in that mode.
BIOS text output functions still work in most graphic modes, hence having a DOS shell running in graphic mode is nothing unusual. Of course problems may arise for text applications that make assumptions about the terminal size or that write directly to VRAM without re-setting a proper text mode.
And btw, 80x25 character text mode in fact is technically a 640x480 "VGA mode"
It's 720x400.
(using the standard 8x16 character matrix, 80x8=640
On VGA there's this cool ninth's bit that improves readability quite a lot.
25*16-480).
Does not compute. Mateusz _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
