Mode 13h is the IBM VGA BIOS mode number for a specific standard 256-color mode on IBM's VGA graphics hardware. It features a resolution of 320×200 pixels and was used extensively in computer games and art/animation software of the late 1980s and early- to mid-1990s. Mode 13h provides programmers with a straightforward manner of access (nicknamed chunky graphics) to video memory at the expense of not being able to use some useful features that the VGA hardware was otherwise capable of providing. Due to the aspect ratio of a 320×200 resolution screen, Mode 13h does not have square pixels.
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