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AdvanceCAB Video Control For DOS
1 Synopsis
video [/s MODE] [/e] [/d] [/r] [/l PCXIMAGE]
2 Description
The `video' utility can be used to control the video output of the PC in DOS.3 Options
| /l IMAGE |
| Load a PCX image. The image must be a PCX image in the 320x200 8bit format. The image is displayed using the standard VGA 320x200 256 color video mode number 13h. |
| /s MODE |
| Set an arbitrary video mode. The MODE is expressed as an hexadecimal BIOS number. |
The most common modes are:
| 1 | Text mode 40x25 16 color. | |
| 3 | Text mode 80x25 16 color. | |
| 13 | Graphics mode 320x200 256 color. |
| /d |
| Disable the hardware video signal. |
| /e |
| Enable the hardware video signal. |
| /r |
| Reset the video board using the BIOS startup function. |
4 Examples
A good configuration for Arcade monitors/TVs may be:In CONFIG.SYS:
device=c:\cab\video.exe /l c:\cab\video.pcx device=c:\cab\vga.exe /l /d /c c:\cab\vga.rc ...other commands... |
In AUTOEXEC.BAT:
...other commands... c:\cab\vga /e ...final application... |