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CLINT Tennessee, 14.09.2021, 22:00	Text Brightness (Users) Post reply
	Is there a way to increase the brightness of the text on the FreeDos screen ? I'm running it under Oracle VM Virtual Box. If this is already documented, please just point me to it; thanks. If not, thanks for the brains on loan.

alexfru USA, 15.09.2021, 02:16 @ CLINT	Text Brightness Post reply
	> Is there a way to increase the brightness of the text on the FreeDos screen > ? > > I'm running it under Oracle VM Virtual Box. Reprogramming the VGA palette registers to brighter values may help (I did something like this many years ago and it worked on a dim VGA display). To persist, said reprogramming should be done on every switch to a text mode (a TSR will do).

jhall 15.09.2021, 22:36 @ alexfru	Text Brightness Post reply
	Jerome Shidel wrote a vga palette tool (can't find it now, not sure if I mirrored it to the FreeDOS files archive on Ibiblio .. but it should be on Jerome's website). You can set the vga palette to adapt the text colors, such as to set "plain white" to use a brighter white.

Laaca

Czech republic,
16.09.2021, 17:18

@ jhall

Text Brightness

Or traditional and almost forgotten way:
devload ansi.sys prompt $e[1;32;40m$p$g

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