Well, "weird" is subjective, and I know some retro-minded folks who consider the CGA text appearance quite nostalgic. yes, sorry, poor choice of words. Anyway, as I mentioned before, DOSBox emulates old PC video standards. Although vDos is based on DOSBox, it throws out the video emulation and uses …

You can try a setting of machine=vgaonly to see what it looks like. here's vgaonly look. the font isnt ideal https://i.postimg.cc/c6L32CTK/DOSBox-vgaonly.png For slash/backslash characters that form nicer diagonals, I think you want a double-height 8-line font, and the easiest way to achieve this …

Are you using DOSBox 0.74-3? Have you tried an SVN build? Yeah, i am using this version Also, a picture is worth a thousand words, and a screen capture can help others better understand your issue. This is what it looks like in XP dos, but also what the default config on DOSBox looks like. Note the …

Got some ASCII character dos games (railway sims) that have tracks that dont quite line up unless the font size is set to 10x18 pixels (on an XP virtual machine). On the forum for vDOS the admin said, vDos internal font has a 1:2 aspect ratio. I suspect the default DOSBox font is 9x16, and comes …