On 3/31/2021 7:54 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
<https://books.google.com/books?id=b4EFTpmTnFgC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=hercules+resolution+1-2-3+rows+columns&source=bl&ots=_TWDifWwBX&sig=ACfU3U3K-c4B-2h5zcunltcS89U8yMYu_w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8oY3r1drvAhUlRDABHaOmAGA4ChDoATAHegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=hercules%20resolution%201-2-3%20rows%20columns&f=false>
is as much as I could find about rows and columns in 1-2-3 back in the 1980s,
quite before I got my first Trident card, an 8800 in 1989. With the Trident and
NEC Multisync I enjoyed 132x30 the most.
My memory is failing to recall pre-Trident specifics. I was using Hercules on a
green monochrome IBM screen, but it certainly seems like I was getting better
than
90x38 as the ad indicates. I have an old green mono display in a closet, and
probably have an old Hercules clone around somewhere, but just as likely no
1-2-3
media, as I switched to Quattro Pro around the time I got the Trident.
Does anyone here remember 1-2-3 on Hercules any differently?
No, I remember it just as mentioned in the add. 90 columns by
30-something rows. Because that is/was the maximum resolution you could
get with that 9x9 font out of the 720x348 pixel native graphics
resolution of an HGC.
Standard VGA could do with some register tricks do more than the default
640x480 pixel resolution, which allowed for fun things (well, the fun
part here is relative) like 96x60 text mode, which I used in one
particular text mode application. And a lot VGA (chip) manufacturer
added BIOS accessible/selectable text modes of 132 characters and up to
50 rows.
Ralf
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