> If the 770 won't handle full-screen DOS displays,
> would my T22 do it? Haven't got it set for
> dual boot yet, but I can get it done fairly easily.
Bob, the problem with all these machines is that a laptop LCD display is
a discrete, immutable number of pixels in each direction. Normally DOS
will
boot to a 640x480 rectangle in the middle of the display, no matter what
the number of pixels. Your machine's BIOS will let you stretch the
screen, but this usually involves rather horrible blocky characters. If
you can get a VESA driver for your laptop's graphics hardware, and your
DOS software is VESA enabled, then in theory you could use more of the
screen with smooth fonts, though I've never actually seen this working
on a laptop - usually it only seems to work on external displays.
Possibly something premium, like the scitechsoft drivers, will work
(these are now available for free download, btw, see
http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/ent/free_titles.html) - I haven't
tried them (but might later tonight).
You don't need dual boot to try any of this, just boot from a DOS boot
floppy.
David R.
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