Is there a way to get the console windows full screen in Windows Vista/7?
I'm looking for a distributable C/C++ solution, library, or emulator.
Microsoft's "solution" is to install a VM which is pretty ludicrous.
The relevant super user's question doesn't have good answers.
For those interested, the full screen console mode isn't available due to WDDM drivers which don't support int10 intercepts.
Take the Console2 source code, modify it to strip toolbars and other visual garbage you don't need and run it in full screen mode.
What it does is starts a command-line shell, redirects the output to its own internal buffers, and then draws the text from those buffers using GDI to a bitmap. Same thing the Virtual PC solution would do, excluding the whole "emulating another OS" layer. :-)