I hope there's not any formatting rules I should be aware of. Oh well...
So I'm new to this place. I made an account just because I felt it was important I bring this to the world's attention.
It seems pressing Alt+Enter twice fixes the screen corruption
Specifically, cycling into full screen, then back into normal screen fixes the corruption, and alt+enter is the easiest way to do that in absence of a GUI.
Let me explain how I found this out,
I had just installed DOSBox. I launched it and there was some screen corruption. However, I've found, at least for me, that when you go into full screen on DOSBox, it has it's own kinda blue screen corruption, so I thought it was that. The way to fix that is to go to normal mode; to press Alt+Enter; so I did, but upon me doing so I saw that actual blue screen corruption. Upon pressing it
again, I saw a normal screen, no corruption, but a normal MS-DOS window.
I was shocked, so I started doing testing on a plain MS-DOS window. Indeed, after reenabling alt+enter (I followed the guide posted at the start of the thread, which involved disabling alt+enter on command prompt), I started with full-screen DOS, and then, after pressing alt+enter, I got, normal screen and a DOS-Prompt window, no corruption.
The most incredible thing, though, is it can fix
EXISTING screen corruption! I opened a DOS prompt in normal size, got the expected screen corruption, then used alt+enter to go to fullscreen, then back to normal, and all was well. And, to make things better, I have also confirmed this works for other programs! (at least if you set your focus set to be a dos prompt before the corruption occurs)
I want to confirm this really works or if it's my unique situation. So, if ya'll see this, mind trying it on your '98 machine?
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A video of me performing this apparent magic (command.com was set to open in windowed mode by default)