First post, by MikeRS
I was going to submit this as a feature request on SourceForge, however this is probably a design decision I don't understand.
Basically as the title says, the CVS tree of DOSBox has proper VGA text mode emulation but only when using machine=vgaonly, and I wonder why it doesn't get used for all the svga* modes as well. I much prefer the accurate representation of text that is currently displayed in vgaonly (I really have a hard time standing the squished text normally displayed, but oh well), but there's several games I play that need one of the SVGA cards.
I realize from talking with some other people, that they feel the aspect is better kept in a window with the squished text, although that's negated by full screen mode anyway (the monitor takes care of being vertically taller...).