If you ever saw a pixel-perfect screenshot from a virtual machine running MS-DOS in the default VGA text mode, you probably noticed that it looks slightly off.
The characters are too wide, and the whole image seems stretched.
But did you know that what you’re seeing is a perfect representation of the actual image, while your monitor from 1995 was deceiving you? Let’s have a closer look.
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/05/adding-aspect-ratio-correction-to-dos-screenshots/
#retrocomputing #msdos #retrogaming
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