Text 50-line display mode \ VOGONS

Text 50-line display mode

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First post, by RichPasco

Posted on 2016-07-13, 04:55

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As a new user, I love DOSBox. I would like to run its text screen in 50-line mode, though. As I recall, in the old DOS the command to do this was

mode co80:50

but in DOSBox that just gives "Illegal command: mode."

I might prefer to put something into my dosbox-0.74.conf file, but what?

Thanks in advance,

- Rich

Reply 1 of 2, by Errius

Posted on 2016-07-13, 05:07

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It's not included in DOSBox. You need to get MODE.COM from the FreeDOS distribution:

http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br … e-2005may12.zip

The command you want is MODE CON LINES=50

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Reply 2 of 2, by RichPasco

Posted on 2016-07-13, 05:15

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Thank you, Errius. Got it and it is working. I am a happy camper now.

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