Video control for DOS

1 Synopsys

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...

	1	Text mode 40x25 16 color.
	3	Text mode 80x25 16 color.
	13	Graphics mode 320x200 256 color.