On my VGA machine I get something useful for me: C:\>mode con lines=21
Mentioned in the mode /? page is „possible values depend on your hardware“. Does it make sense to try more values…? Or is there some rationale behind it? Th. > Am 19.06.2025 um 19:03 schrieb Eric Auer via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > > Hi! > >> How can I make the system font bigger? >> (e.g. setting the display to 20 lines instead of 25) >> I am using cga. > > Hmm. CGA. Not even EGA or VGA. In VGA, you would get: > > C:\>mode con lines=42 > Lines must be 25, 28, 43 or 50, or font size 8, 14 or 16. > If you have VESA, 30, 34 or 60 lines can be available, too. > > Given that CGA has 320x200 and 640x200 modes, you could > try to load some 8x14 or 8x16 font, but that would mean > only 12 or 14 lines. > > In addition, the CGA BIOS does not contain fonts larger > than 8x8, so you would have to use the DOS DISPLAY driver > to load the larger fonts. However, that driver probably > ALSO will assume that you only want 8x8 fonts and fail > to load the larger fonts. > > According to wikipedia, CGA only supports ROM fonts. > I guess it just does not have enough graphics RAM. > > You could only switch to a slow graphics mode and let > the BIOS render the text in software. Should work for > software which does not directly access text screen > buffer memory and only uses DOS or BIOS to show text. > > Regards, Eric > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
