Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Thomas, many screens will resize the signal you send them to full screen, probably with black bars either on top and bottom or left and right to match aspect ratio. This will usually give you large pixels or a fuzzy, blurred experience, so it has downsides nevertheless. So it is not common t

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user
Hi Eric, this is intriguing: > On 28.02.2024, at 18:54, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > > SVGA just is something used by your apps, > provided by your hardware and BIOS. Do you by any chane know of software for Dos, esp. such as text-editors that would use SVGA? Note (not too much rel

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Ed, Is there any major differences between FreeDOS and MSDOS under the hood? FreeDOS aims to be highly compatible with MS DOS, so even if you rely on some "reasonably inner workings" of DOS beyond the normal int 21 interface etc. everything should still work very much the same with FreeDO

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Jim, thanks for this guide. Is there any major differences between FreeDOS and MSDOS under the hood. I did notice differences in DosBOX as this has the SVGA drivers built in so you can use high definition modes upto 1024x768 in 256 colours iirc. -Ed EdzUp On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, 16:10 Linvel Ris

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Linvel Risner via Freedos-user
Jim, I deeply appreciate you directing me to those guides, I've bookmarked them for after work. Yes, I very much would order something off of Lulu. Let me know when you have it back up, and I'll buy it. I've always found literature more helpful than videos, but I think both is a happy place to be