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Solve : change dos font size in native dos, not windows shelled dos? |
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Answer» I remember way back being able to make dos font size larger, on an old 8088 running DOS 5.0, Thought it was part of the SET command, but cant seem to locate it. Digging online I found a statement that to me just sounds way incorrect... Quote "MS-DOS uses characters built into the video card. Thus, you cannot "change" the font."Doesn't the OS parameters/drivers control size and font type of text that is displayed and the video card is just displaying what it is told to display on its x,y grid? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_change_font_size_in_DOS_command Changing font/text size is simple in windows shell PROPERTIES, but ran across this the other day with DOS displaying on my 27" CRT TV in which the text is too small to barely make out, and I am using HTPC with DOS 6.22 boot floppy to play old games. Wolfenstein 3D really likes the XMS and EMS memory which is obsolete in modern windows. If it were just WOLF3D that I was playing, I'd just add that exe to autoexec.bat on the floppy, but I also play other games so it would be nice to avoid the eye strain by increasing the font size, which I PRETTY much just sit back and type as correct as possible to start the game, and if I fumble a key try again with the text blur of a 27" CRT TV..lol I suppose at some point I should modernize from 1995 TV technology and go with a nice flat screen which would be crisp text even if small... but until I have a couple hundred bucks with nothing better to do, I'd liek to make the dos text larger in DOS 6.22..lolOK. Yes, you can change the font size. You are talking about DOS 6.22 running native, not inside of anything or under anythig. It depemds on the vbideo card. DOS does not have a font sests like nWindows has. The fonts are crated by a generator in the video card. Most of the nolder video cards had no wayn to alter the font used. But it was posible to change the number of chars on a line. And the number of lines on the display. It is hard to get this information now. Just about every reference is about using DOS under windfows, whichn is nnot really DOS. This is nabout the MODE command. It can change the ndisplay. http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/mode.html (I am running Vista and FF 6 and no SPELL checker.)mode co40Thanks guys... "I forgot all about MODE.com" and that would be why i was not finding my answer through google when looking to do it using SET . Looked into the Mode co40 and COLOR with 40 characters per line should definitely do the trick on bootable DOS 6.22 floppy disk adding that to config.sys line. I just need to make sure that I add MODE.com to it for that to work, since the floppy was created using format a:/s a long time ago ( 1995-ish ), and I bet its not on that disk.!!! These days people say who still uses floppies... well I do for native old school gaming and bios flashes! I've been hanging around Windows too long and these bits of info are disappearing from what I probably knew 20 years ago before Windows spoiled me... lol Today with Windows you can alter your font just by command shell window properties. And for quite a few years I have used that feature when needing to make text bigger in command shell... so the sector for making text bigger in my brain got overwritten with that tidbit vs the old way pre-windows. Will tag that piece of info with ATTRIB +R this time to protect it from getting lost again..lol Quote from: DaveLembke on September 13, 2011, 01:40:53 AM adding that to config.sys line.won't work there. it's a command. add it to autoexec.bat. Quote These days people say who still uses floppies... I do. Well, actually, that's not true, because nearly all my floppies are bad. I do have a floppy drive installed though. Quote from: DaveLembke on September 13, 2011, 01:40:53 AM These days people say who still uses floppies I do too. They have all of my StarCraft custom maps on them, from when I used to stay up until ridiculous hours drinking Wal-Mart brand soda and eating Cheetos while creating works of art in StarCraft map editor. Ow! Flashbacks of "triggers" PROGRAMMING... painful... I thought MODE.com was a standard load after DOS 6. Maybe it was another one. I can't remember back that far very well.Quote from: Raven19528 on September 13, 2011, 09:36:14 AM I do too. They have all of my StarCraft custom maps on them, from when I used to stay up until ridiculous hours drinking Wal-Mart brand soda and eating Cheetos while creating works of art in StarCraft map editor. Ow! Flashbacks of "triggers" programming... painful... MODE was in all version of DOS, at least since 3.11, most likely earlier. It's never been on the boot disks created with sys or format /s, though.Thanks BC for the correction ... I too was thinking autoexec.bat, but the site I was on was talking about it in config.sys, so thats why I was like well maybe because its a configuration parameter where services and memory allocation parameters are set. Tonight hopefully I'll get to test out MODE co40. |
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