On 12/16/2019 10:00 AM, Lino Mastrodomenico wrote:
Despite some limitations the nice thing about setting high-res text
modes using only generic VGA registers (as opposed to card-specific
SuperVGA) is that the same code works ~everywhere and doesn't need a
VBE BIOS; the downside is that the VG
Sorry, edit error cutting off the end of my sentence:
> Also, please add the exotic modes to an updated svgatextmode port
> and not to mode! Mode is meant to stay within BIOS support limits
> and compatibility as far as possible, as far as I am concerned,
> while svgatextmode is known to be usea
Hi Lino,
In which ways does the old svgatextmode fail for you and
which VESA text modes do you have as opposed to which text
modes would you like to have? You cannot set ARBITRARY size
because the text mode has to follow a graphics mode as far
as resolution is concerned. Of course modern screens
Hi all,
TL;DR: is there a modern open source equivalent of SVGATextMode that works
on FreeDOS, supports recent graphics cards and PC emulators, and is not
limited to the few (if any) text modes provided by a typical VESA BIOS?
For context: x86 emulators (QEMU, DOSBox, Bochs...) happily allow high
