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Subject: Re: Changing text modes. 80*50.
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:49:07 GMT
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Tom Morton wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can set the text mode to be 80*50 characters?
> IIRC setting colour text mode is done seperately from setting the
> number of lines but I just can't remember how to do it.
> This is the wee chunk of code that sets text mode but it leaves me
> in 80*25 characters, which is too small:
>
>  /* Set video mode */
>  r.h.ah = 0x00;
>  r.h.al = 0x03; /* Color text mode */
>  int86(0x10, &r, &r);

80x50 is a mode supported by VESA, so try using a VESA set of init
routines.
and then changemode to what ever the mode is.

I think that the functionity is in Allegro.

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