Hi Thomas,

many screens will resize the signal you send them to
full screen, probably with black bars either on top
and bottom or left and right to match aspect ratio.

This will usually give you large pixels or a fuzzy,
blurred experience, so it has downsides nevertheless.

So it is not common to get a physically small image
from low resolutions. Some laptops did that, but they
typically had a hotkey to enable scaling, something
done by hardware and/or BIOS?

Anyway, I would suggest that you either use MODE to
activate one of the more classic modes, or some VESA
based utility to activate any of the modes offered by
the VESA VGA BIOS.

This, however, will give you more characters on screen,
but not larger ones! If your screen does scaling, the
characters will actually be smaller if you have more
of them.

So you could rephrase your question: Is there a DOS
text editor which uses high resolution VESA modes and
high resolution character fonts, for large and sharp
character outlines?

I think Blocek uses graphical fonts, but I am not sure
which font sizes it includes. Editors with vector based
fonts could scale dynamically based on screen resolution.

Regards, Eric




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