32x16 monochrome text mode?
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32x16 monochrome text mode?
G'Day, I played a bit with the VIC registers and found it should be possible to realize a 32x16 pseudo text mode at least for PAL displays (6 pixel char box). Does someone know a terminal emulator or similar software implementing such resolution ?
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polluks
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Re: 32x16 monochrome text mode?
You are on your own or add 32 cols to NinjaTerm 2.0.
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Mike
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Re: 32x16 monochrome text mode?
If you don't mind tilting the monitor by 90 degrees, a PAL VIC-20 can display 32x26 characters, in full colour even. 
Other than that - as polluks wrote: the VIC chip is surely capable of quite some software-defined bitmap, graphics or text modes. Unless one of those has actually been implemented by someone other, standalone or for an application, you'll have to do it on your own.
For what matters, I've done a 40x24 software-defined text mode with 4x8 pixel glyphs that got at least some use in 3rd-party applications lately, so maybe that's something for you.
Other than that - as polluks wrote: the VIC chip is surely capable of quite some software-defined bitmap, graphics or text modes. Unless one of those has actually been implemented by someone other, standalone or for an application, you'll have to do it on your own.
For what matters, I've done a 40x24 software-defined text mode with 4x8 pixel glyphs that got at least some use in 3rd-party applications lately, so maybe that's something for you.
Re: 32x16 monochrome text mode?
Thanks. I will take a look at NinjaTerm and the 40 column routines