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One of my favorite memories when I was tinkering with DOS was when I discovered that I could change the display from 80x25 to 80x40 (or was it 50? Something wit

by mihaic 3y ago

One of my favorite memories when I was tinkering with DOS was when I discovered that I could change the display from 80x25 to 80x40 (or was it 50? Something with mode con lines=). It felt like a game-changer, especially since I just started to learn Borland Pascal and could now fit so much more text on screen. I now wonder why working in that mode wasn't more widespread if it was supported.

chrisco255 3y ago
My guess would be that a lot of apps were probably hard-coded to work with 80x25.
SomeoneFromCA 3y ago
80x43 or 80x50
rbanffy 3y ago
The character font wasn't great - it was the same as CGA, mostly. Actual terminals had finer fonts (and resolutions above the 480 lines of 80x50)
justsomehnguy 3y ago
14" (with 13" visible at best) weren't the best ones for that mode. And yes, while you were in the 80x25 there were no problems, but as soon as anything tried to do something fancy, even just changing the glyphs.. The other problems is the amount of the video RAM, but I'm not ready to check %hat right now.