Hi Joshua, On Sun, 2025-11-09 at 18:28 -0800, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2025, at 7:28 AM, bput <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Your built-in display cannot do 80 characters, period. > > I don't run it at all times but Ultrascreen100 is surprisingly good > and provides 80 columns—on the built-in display—in BASIC and TEXT > without much issue at all. Not everything else is perfectly > compatible. MENU is always going to be 40, and much software of > course was never written with 80 columns in mind. > > That being said, simply having 80 columns in TEXT at BASIC, via > software, is pretty great. I like Ultrascreen100 quite a bit more > than View80 since it's truly drawing 80 columns rather than just > moving a visible window around. Performance isn't blazing fast. IMO > that's a fair tradeoff for the functionality. > > Nice! I've used 60 characters consistently with UR-II and found the resulting characters readable -- I was not aware of any other solution that allowed 80 characters on the built-in LCD screen without scrolling. I really thought the 60-char character set was the limit.
Thanks for sharing that! It should be noted that using VT-100 and driving an external display with CP/M (ie. REXCPM) gives you 80x25 characters right away without any muss or fuss (since that was a question in the original thread LOL) Regards, Bert
