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While some people might not see the need for it, the author lists several reasons why it'd be nice to have. The article mentions that there are multiple old (an
by autoexec 1y ago
While some people might not see the need for it, the author lists several reasons why it'd be nice to have. The article mentions that there are multiple old (and no longer working) workarounds and tricks that used to allow for 80x25 and presumably those existed and were shared online because others also wanted it.
I don't see why it shouldn't be possible? It seems like a reasonable thing to want to be able to change and even force resolutions to whatever your hardware will support, especially if there's a large amount of old software out there which expects a certain resolution. Old computers are very nice to have, but increasingly difficult to find and find working parts for. They also tend to come with some pretty big trade offs in terms of size, noise, and energy inefficiency. It'd mean a lot of less than ideal hardware just to get back something that people already had.
- db48x 1y agoHe wants to use a display mode with rectangular pixels. No matter what he does in software, that’s going to require specialized hardware. It’ll take a real CRT. No LCD ever made can change the shape of its own pixels.
- mnw21cam 1y agoMost LCD displays will do hardware scaling when given a resolution lower than the native resolution.
- JdeBP 1y agoMore importantly, VGA text modes cannot be exactly simulated with standard VGA/VESA graphics modes. The people who wrote fake Blue Screen of Death joke programs for Windows NT discovered this years ago. The article author is explicitly looking for 720 by 400, not 640 by 400, and is trying to obtain that using Linux mechanisms that select graphics modes and do not configure the hardware to be in an actual text mode. i.e. fbcon rather than vgacon.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoUntrue. Even cheap-ass imported HDMI monitors support aspect-corrected scaling from 720x400 (80x25 x 9x16) to their native resolutions, even if not all of them support fill to screen.
- db48x 1y agoHave you worked out yet how ugly that’s going to be?
- account42 1y agoA high enough resolution LCD can however emulate much larger CRT pixels. And this even matches the way PC CRT monitors worked - each displayed "pixel" lights many different phosphors.
- db48x 1y agoThey don’t make any with _that_ high a resolution. Not even the 8K demonstration models that various companies have made are dense enough for that.
- OCTAGRAM 1y agoITX-Llama and its clone called Pixel x86 are new, not noisy. Based on modern Vortex86 CPU that has real functioning ISA DMA bus, something ceased to exist in 2000 in other conventional CPUs and motherboards