Hi Phil.

10-Feb-03 06:58:22, Phil Marlowe wrote to Charles Angelich

 PM> For a moment there I thought you were saying that you could have
 PM> enlarged video fonts (like True-Type) under DOS.  That would be
 PM> =real= handy for my low-vision group, and would allow them to read
 PM> ebooks (like those available via Gutenberg) on something as lowly
 PM> as a 386 -- the only equipment we have plenty of.

you can stick the VGA card into a lowres mode (like 40x12) but many dos
programs will refuse to run with that resolution or work incorrectly.

however list (text file reader by V.Buerg) and ted (simple editor by pcmag)
both work fine (except the help screens don't display correctly)
The dos command-line works, but again help doesn't

if you need a tool to activate 40x12 I can probably cook someything up out
of a few dozen carefuilly selected bytes.

(52 bytes, needs vga, tested in colour, should work in mono) took about
half an hour to knock together.

here it is encoded in an executable form, just cut it out and
save it into an empty text file called lores.com (or similar)

XPPPYZIQD[L-f6-g41GDSCu*SXK,I,IP^P_FX,O,O(GS(GU(GZ(Gnu+J.BETTS03
CFFFRX,`,`2$F={at}!t|rQ0%IuL0%(%(%GERYAARX2%(%t8++j=B|:|>{at}J|(|-([{{at}
*[{)B}(:/jB&B/&J){{at}J|(}-([{{at}]-B{at}*{at}*|--|J^*|J:]}J}<{~""B]}(={
B\:]B"([*-!4vbAw_O>^*W_+>eXBO33%%X7po'7,Tg({at}b0\&(\){
[10:j{[3sQ=$H+E$Z;=P(%:"#-=LORES=-

If that resolution proves useful I can probably develop something
that does a scolling-magnifier sort of thing, providing a 40x12
(etc) scrolling window on a larger (virtual) dos screen - that
way dos programs that need 80x25 (etc) can be used with an
enlarged font... I'd probably want some money for something like
that, I'd make it shareware, the above encoded program is totally free.

if you need something to load fonts for that mode I can probably
find/adapt something free...

 -=> Bye <=-

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