sw@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Simon Wail) (03/11/91)
G'Day, I'm looking for a utility and/or device driver that will let me display 132 columns on a VGA display. Preferably transparently to the application. If it's just a matter of defining a font then please let me know otherwise an ftp site and a filename would be great. Please mail rather than post to avoid using expensive :-) bandwidth. Thanks, Ron Wail ACSnet: sw@goanna.oz.au UUCP: ...uunet!munnari!goanna!sw "Nature is blind, we are merely short-sighted. That's an improvement." Henry Spencer on sci.space
cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) (03/16/91)
In article <4937@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, sw@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Simon Wail) writes: |> G'Day, |> I'm looking for a utility and/or device driver that |> will let me display 132 columns on a VGA display. |> Preferably transparently to the application. If it's |> just a matter of defining a font then please let me know |> otherwise an ftp site and a filename would be great. Please |> mail rather than post to avoid using expensive :-) bandwidth. |> |> Thanks, |> Ron Wail Unlike chaging the number of rows on the display which is done by a font change, getting 132 columns requires a change the the scan rate, and your video card needs to be able to generate it, and your video monitor needs to be able to display it. No two video cards are required to support 132 columns in the same way. Many cards however do provide a BIOS subfunction to set 132 columns, but it's card specific. Look in the interupt list under INT 10H function 0 (set video mode) for your video card to see how to do it for your card. ================================================================= Kevin J. Cummings Prime Computer Inc. 20 Briarwood Road 500 Old Connecticut Path Framingham, Mass. Framingham, Mass. InterNet: cummings@primerd.Prime.COM UUCP: {uunet, csnet-relay}!primerd.Prime.COM!cummings Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system SUCKS..." -- War Games =================================================================