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Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Quake by mhd on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:55AM (#11961372)
> Quake was build for 320x200 (VGA) as primary resolution target.

Wasn't it Mode X, i.e. 320x240?

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Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Quake by bluedino on Thursday June 23, 2016 @11:27AM (#11961711) 

    vid_describemodes

    Lists all available video modes, built-in and VESA.

    vid_mode #

    Switches the video mode to mode #.  Quake has 11 built-in modes:

    0:  320x200
    1:  320x200
    2:  360x200
    3:  320x240
    4:  360x240
    5:  320x350
    6:  360x350
    7:  320x400
    8:  360x400
    9:  320x480
    10: 360x480

    0 is the default mode.  Modes above 10 are not built in, but are VESA
    modes which may be supported by Quake and your hardware.  Use
    vid_describemodes to see the available VESA modes.
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Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Quake by ekekekekekekl on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:33PM (#11963335)
I was always super disappointed they didn't use Mode-X by default.

As a result, even though you could set Mode-X explicitly, it wasn't optimized so it went slower than plain 13h and wasn't even page-flipped. So there wasn't a compelling reason to use it, except for the square pixels.

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Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Quake by animal531 on Friday June 24, 2016 @08:10AM (#11969106)
Ah, good old Mode X hackery; all that effort for 40 extra scanlines (and paging).
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