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That's interesting, I haven't seen that. I don't think MODE CON magically changed text mode resolution beyond 80 or 40 cols either. It was mostly about having p
by sedatk 6y ago
That's interesting, I haven't seen that. I don't think MODE CON magically changed text mode resolution beyond 80 or 40 cols either. It was mostly about having proper line wraps with INT 21h output, IIRC.
- kjs3 6y agoIf you're talking MS-DOS, 132 column mode was very common on apps where it made sense (wordstar, visicalc), but was usually invoked with an app-specific driver of some sort, not BIOS calls.