Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Hi Wolfram! There was also some version called STM which is more tuned towards DOS than plain DJGPP svgatextmode port I believe, but I forgot the details. More tuned towards DOS? In what way exactly? When I ported this version, there was already some DOS support in the code. Alas, it was completely broken due to the latest Linux additions. So, I made it compile again and changed a bit... Oh okay I did not know you already repaired this thing :-) My comparison was between the old some DOS support and that STM tool, not your fixed / improved / revamped port, sorry about that ;-) Eric - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Switch resolution is in my association like in windows display settings where you can change it and not about lines. Whatever I do with mode, it switches the lines and fonts but it never switches the resolution directly. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Whatever I do with mode, it switches the lines and fonts but it never switches the resolution directly. Then try SVGATextMode :) It lets you calculate custom resolutions (although the calculation can be a bit tricky). Wolfram - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Wolfram Sang schrieb: Whatever I do with mode, it switches the lines and fonts but it never switches the resolution directly. Then try SVGATextMode :) It lets you calculate custom resolutions (although the calculation can be a bit tricky). Ok, thanks I have downloaded it. I have only a standard/usual TFT... Well, I don't get really what program to use and what to enter to switch resolution? -mr - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Michael Reichenbach schrieb: Wolfram Sang schrieb: ... Small remark. If needed to know, my graphic card is also a standard/usual one. A pretty new one (much time after DOS) but with latest Vesa 3.0, no exotic one like S3 or so. -mr - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Well, I don't get really what program to use and what to enter to switch
resolution?
Have a look at the config file. If you are lucky, you will find a
textmode there which fits your needs and works with your setup ('STM
gfxmode'). If not, then there is documentation how to create new modes
from scratch which can be added to the config file. Sadly, I can't
recall too much details right now; that's all some two years ago...
All the best,
Wolfram
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[Freedos-user] Display size
I have a Sony Vaio PCG-C!VN laptop, which has a 1024x480 screen size. I'd like to install FreeDOS on it, but the display is such that it leaves large amounts of unused black space on both sides of the screen. Is there a way to set the display so that I can use the entire screen? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Hi! I have a Sony Vaio PCG-C!VN laptop, which has a 1024x480 screen size. Interesting. Made in 2000 but panoramatic ;-) I'd like to install FreeDOS on it, but the display is such that it leaves large amounts of unused black space on both sides of the screen. This is because C1VN's 1024x480 is a (very) widescreen resolution... (25x15x3cm, 400MHz Crusoe, 128MB, 12GB, USB, fiwi, modem, pccard, audio) Is there a way to set the display so that I can use the entire screen? Standard modes are for example 720x400 and 640x480, but you should play with MODE a bit to see if you find a mode that suits your screen a bit better. As far as I understand, your Vaio can stretch the image to touch 2 edges of the screen but refuses to distort it to stretch it further to fill the whole screen. But maybe it has some special (BIOS) hotkey to enable whole screen mode? Check the handbook :-). Apart from MODE you can also try a VESA or other tool to select other supported graphics modes. Note that non-text will be slow in DOS and not all DOS apps will support it: The BIOS has to draw chars as graphics in non-text modes and some apps bypass the BIOS and try to put text on the screen themselves. Enjoy the tuning and send an update to tell what you found out :-). Eric (too :-)) PS: There are also more evil ways which can create custom more exotic modes for you. Least exotic 2.1:1 mode would be 720x350, combining aspects of normal modes: EGA 9x14 font / 80x25 chars. Maybe you even find a sequence of MODE calls that end up there. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Can I switch in DOS somehow from standard/default resolution (320*200 ?) to 1024*768? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
handbook :-). Apart from MODE you can also try a VESA or other tool to select other supported graphics modes. Note that non-text will If you are into experimenting a bit, try SVGATEXTMODE. It can give very unusual textmodes. Drawback is, considering your hardware, I guess you must find the correct values on your own. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/svgatextmode_1_9_16rc1-dos.tgz All the best, Wolfram - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Hi Wolfram, If you are into experimenting a bit, try SVGATEXTMODE. It can give very unusual textmodes. Drawback is, considering your hardware, I guess you must find the correct values on your own. www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/svgatextmode_1_9_16rc1-dos.tgz There was also some version called STM which is more tuned towards DOS than plain DJGPP svgatextmode port I believe, but I forgot the details. However, here is your MODE sequence: MODE co80 MODE con lines=43 MODE con lines=14 This selects 80x25 720x400 9x16 mode, then switches to EGA ???x350 resolution and finally switches to ?x14 font which means that you get 25 lines in (roughly) 350 pixels. If the X resolution stays at 720 (it might switch to 640, not sure) then you end up with 720x350 (with 9x14 style font) resolution suitable for 2:1 wide screen :-). Actually in DOSEMU there even is a VESA text mode with 132x60 with 8x8 font using 1056x480 pixels: mode con lines=60 cols=132 and then mode con lines=16 gives you 132x30 with 8x16 font there... However 1056 pixels is just a bit too much to fit the 1024x480 Vaio. Still you could start at the 132x30 SVGATextMode parameters to derive a new 128x30 or 112x30 set of parameters for SVGATextMode (non VESA). Eric - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
Thanks all for the assistance. I tried using mode. I still get a little more than an inch on each side, and when I tried the settings, the fonts on the programs I am using were all messed up (Quattro Pro and MS Works). I'll look into some of the svga/vga options and report back in a few days. --- On Tue, 8/19/08, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Display size To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 11:31 PM Hi Wolfram, If you are into experimenting a bit, try SVGATEXTMODE. It can give very unusual textmodes. Drawback is, considering your hardware, I guess you must find the correct values on your own. www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/svgatextmode_1_9_16rc1-dos.tgz There was also some version called STM which is more tuned towards DOS than plain DJGPP svgatextmode port I believe, but I forgot the details. However, here is your MODE sequence: MODE co80 MODE con lines=43 MODE con lines=14 This selects 80x25 720x400 9x16 mode, then switches to EGA ???x350 resolution and finally switches to ?x14 font which means that you get 25 lines in (roughly) 350 pixels. If the X resolution stays at 720 (it might switch to 640, not sure) then you end up with 720x350 (with 9x14 style font) resolution suitable for 2:1 wide screen :-). Actually in DOSEMU there even is a VESA text mode with 132x60 with 8x8 font using 1056x480 pixels: mode con lines=60 cols=132 and then mode con lines=16 gives you 132x30 with 8x16 font there... However 1056 pixels is just a bit too much to fit the 1024x480 Vaio. Still you could start at the 132x30 SVGATextMode parameters to derive a new 128x30 or 112x30 set of parameters for SVGATextMode (non VESA). Eric - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display size
There was also some version called STM which is more tuned towards DOS than plain DJGPP svgatextmode port I believe, but I forgot the details. More tuned towards DOS? In what way exactly? When I ported this version, there was already some DOS support in the code. Alas, it was completely broken due to the latest Linux additions. So, I made it compile again and changed a bit of the behaviour to be more DOS-friendly. I may be wrong, but I'd think this is the most DOS-tuned version around (let alone that I haven't found a single download for the older DOS-binaries back then). Believe me, there was more involved than just running DJGPP over the code :) All the best, Wolfram - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution
Hi, A bit more of information is required. As you are talking about full screen, it seems that you are not running [Free]DOS standalone, but inside a virtualizer or emulator, which one? DOSEMU? Aitor seorge escribió: I've downloaded a bunch of old dos-games (some of them from '80s) for my dauhhter, but some of those games won't run in full-screen mode. Instead of full-screen I got some incorrect resolition and wierd screen-size. Can it be fixed globally, os should I try to setup display parameters for each application separately? BTW: where can I download (get) the superfrog game for x86, because i've find only amiga and win32 files? But I remember there was an x86 version of this game for DOS. Thanks in advance! --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] display size+resolution
I've downloaded a bunch of old dos-games (some of them from '80s) for my dauhhter, but some of those games won't run in full-screen mode. Instead of full-screen I got some incorrect resolition and wierd screen-size. Can it be fixed globally, os should I try to setup display parameters for each application separately? BTW: where can I download (get) the superfrog game for x86, because i've find only amiga and win32 files? But I remember there was an x86 version of this game for DOS. Thanks in advance! --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution
Um, does FreeDOS have a windowed mode? Never heard of that. Not windowed mode. When I say not full-screen I mean only a small box is visible in the center of the monitor and everything else in the corners is black and even this small box is not a box actually, but it has some wierd forms and corners. Do you use a CRT or TFT display? I have an old CRT G50 monitor manufactured in 1996. Download legally? No way. Just ask Team17: http://www.team17.com/ Thanks. I've expected that it should be a kind of abandonware these days :) --- Original message --- From: Robert Riebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution Date: Thursday 03 November 2005 14:45 seorge wrote: dauhhter, but some of those games won't run in full-screen mode. Instead of Um, does FreeDOS have a windowed mode? Never heard of that. full-screen I got some incorrect resolition and wierd screen-size. Can it be Do you use a CRT or TFT display? BTW: where can I download (get) the superfrog game for x86, because i've find Download legally? No way. Just ask Team17: http://www.team17.com/ Robert Riebisch --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution
seorge wrote: Not windowed mode. OK When I say not full-screen I mean only a small box is visible in the center of the monitor and everything else in the corners is black and even this small box is not a box actually, but it has some wierd forms and corners. That's either a problem with your monitor or graphics card. It's not FreeDOS related. Sorry. I've expected that it should be a kind of abandonware these days :) It's not. see the-underdogs.org Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
