Editing Text mode (section)

== User-defined characters ==

The border between text mode and graphical programs can sometimes be fuzzy, especially on the PC's [[Video Graphics Array|VGA]] hardware, because many later text mode programs tried to push the model to the extreme by playing with the [[Graphics card|video controller]]. For example, they redefined the character set in order to create custom semi-graphical characters, or even created the appearance of a graphical mouse pointer by redefining the appearance of the characters over which the mouse pointer was shown at a given time.

Text mode rendering with user-defined characters has also been useful for 2D [[Video game|computer and video games]] because the game screen can be manipulated much faster than with pixel-oriented rendering.

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