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14 CRT environments
All programs in the FrontDoor package are screen environment aware
and most of them can adjust to most (if not all) screen sizes as long
as the current screen mode has 80 or more columns (horizontally).
If you have an EGA or VGA card that allows you to set the screen mode
to something like 132x28 and you want to use this in FM, FD, or the
Terminal, you should specify that you want the AUTO screen mode for
that particular program. This will prevent it from altering the
screen mode.
Please note that if you run FD in AUTO mode, you must run FM and the
Terminal in AUTO mode as well, if you plan to load either from FD
(and not just from DOS). Otherwise, FD will display garbage data on
the screen when you return from the Terminal. The opposite (running
the Terminal in AUTO and FD in 25 or 43/50) is, however, properly
handled.
To set extended screen modes (except 80x43 and 80x50), you must use
an external utility in the noncommercial version. The commercial
version allows you to specify video BIOS parameters to set and reset
extended screen modes.
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