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Text Brightness (Users)

posted by alexfru, USA, 15.09.2021, 02:16

> Is there a way to increase the brightness of the text on the FreeDos screen
> ?
>
> I'm running it under Oracle VM Virtual Box.

Reprogramming the VGA palette registers to brighter values may help (I did something like this many years ago and it worked on a dim VGA display).
To persist, said reprogramming should be done on every switch to a text mode (a TSR will do).

Complete thread:

• Text Brightness - CLINT, 14.09.2021, 22:00 (Users)
  • Text Brightness - alexfru, 15.09.2021, 02:16
    • Text Brightness - jhall, 15.09.2021, 22:36
      • Text Brightness - Laaca, 16.09.2021, 17:18