On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, you wrote: > Fair point. And, as we have discussed before, different colours > suit different people. And 50 lines can be challenging on ordinary VGA > monitors. Are you now able to choose colours and screen lines ? I dont see how to offer a different number of screen lines without messing up the 'typesetting' so that the top of the right hand column lines up with the end of the bottom of the left hand column.
I tried 43 EGA mode, but sometimes it seems that the screen would go to 50 line mode anyway; probly a problem with the video rom bios which was not likely very well tested by the OEM. And while there certainly may be problems with some low res vga, those too are getting scarce; I dunno any that are currently sold, and I've seen SVGA listed for 30$. Likewise, you may still find ISA video cards, but none of them are VGA either, all SVGA, either PCI or AGP. If colorized text is useful it will continue to be for quite some time, during which the already high ratio of SVGA will increase, approaching 100% in a few more years. And from the standpoint of remote village schools or other such low income venues, one of the factors I see likely is that the power needs of the CRT VGA will remain a problem in areas with poor, or no electric utility, and in that case the extra cost of the SVGA LCD will be seen as lower than the cost of the extra battery backup or solar panels needed to meet the much higher wattage of CRT displays. included in the archive is 'COLOR.BAT', which lists other color codes that might be used. I'd like to get a round tuit to add a scroll bar menu that would display color options.
