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Is it possible to change the font sizes in QuickBASIC?
Not unless you make your own font routines in graphical mode. You can change the character set with your own, but you can only have one character set at a time and the spacing will still be the same. Now you can go into different text modes (80x25, 40x25, 80x50, etc) and those fonts will look bigger and smaller, but it won't be the same as, say a Windows .TTF font. Your only option there is to go into a graphical mode and draw the lettering.
I just want the lettering to look bigger without having to change to a SCREEN mode with a lower resoultion. I want to be able to draw things on the screen and have larger letters. I'd also like to do this using SCREEN 2. I don't need another font or anything advanced. I just need the letters to be bigger.
In Mode 0, you have several options:
40 x 25
40 x 43
40 x 50
80 x 25
80 x 43
80 x 50

In Mode 2, you don't have any.

You set the dimensions with:
WIDTH [columns][,lines]
You need to make your own font routine, or get one existing.

There's several.