Something I was wondering while reading the article: why? Why would you create a 8x19 font if you already have a 8x16 don't? The answer is: so that you can use a standard 640x480 VGA resolution instead of of 640x400 to display 25 lines of text.
fredoralive•1h ago
Of course that asks the question of why use the graphics mode for text, which I would suspect was simply to show the seemingly obligatory Energy Star logo, but these Intel boards don’t have it.
bananaboy•53m ago
This apparently was a text mode not a graphics mode. It would have been a tweaked text mode since the standard mode 3 text mode that you can set via int 10h is 720x400.
The energy star logo was also displayed in text modes - by using custom font glyphs!
michalpleban•44m ago
It's not a graphics mode. It is just a resolution from the graphics mode, repurposed for the text mode. The reason possibly being the 640x480 resolution is universally supported while 720x400 is not - for example my HDMI TV can still display 640x480.
martijnvds•21m ago
The Energy Star logo tended to be made up of custom characters in text mode.
michalpleban•1h ago
fredoralive•1h ago
bananaboy•53m ago
The energy star logo was also displayed in text modes - by using custom font glyphs!
michalpleban•44m ago
martijnvds•21m ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAHGKanqO6s