Text 1609, 28 rader
Skriven 2005-01-04 14:03:04 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
   Kommentar till text 1604 av Dan Ceppa (1:123/666.0)
Ärende: XP and DOS
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 ml>> this is common in most any graphical environment... i'm also going to
 ml>> guess that when you say "full-screen" you actually mean the "native"
 ml>> 80x25 textmode format...
 ml>> the reason is that anything else is emulated in a graphical format
 ml>> whereas 80x25 is natural and needs no emulation at all...

 DC> How about the other "normal" DOS 43 or 50 lines per screen?

since they use different textmode fonts, they will be different than 80x25 but
should still be very fast...

 DC> The XP is quite grainy in 80x25

that is likely the monitor... boot with a plain DOS disk and compare...

 DC> I tried playing with my BW screen settings, but the XP won't
 DC> accept them.

generally, you have to have the screen already switched... at least in my
experiance... try adjusting your PIF file or the autoexec.nt (or whatever it
is) and setting all the DOS screens to your desired setting... i run all my DOS
tasks at 80x50 with the following command in my autoexec.bat on w98se...

  mode con: lines=50 cols=80

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