My guess is "not odd video but the ancient chaos". In those old days, every video card had its extras, its special video modes, and its special way of enabling them. These extras were supported by native video drivers but they usually aren't supported by SNAP or Panorama. SNAP usually restricts your fullscreen to (available) VESA modes. Panorama does not seem to support more than standard BIOS video modes (00h - 13h) in DOS sessions. In OS/2 sessions, it need not be better.
Check which VESA modes are supported by your comp. There exist a 132x50 VESA modes, which might be usable when rewritting "something weird". Note that not all VESA modes, which should be available on your HW, can be reported as available. The reason is the current very bad coding of VESA BIOS: Winblows does not need VESA so that BIOS coders do not waste time with implementing it and if they show any effort in implementing then the result is incomplete and full of bugs. I have seen "VESA VBE 2.0 compatible" video card which supported only 640x350x16 and 640x400x16 VESA video modes. Period.
Check which VESA modes are supported by your comp. There exist a 132x50 VESA modes, which might be usable when rewritting "something weird". Note that not all VESA modes, which should be available on your HW, can be reported as available. The reason is the current very bad coding of VESA BIOS: Winblows does not need VESA so that BIOS coders do not waste time with implementing it and if they show any effort in implementing then the result is incomplete and full of bugs. I have seen "VESA VBE 2.0 compatible" video card which supported only 640x350x16 and 640x400x16 VESA video modes. Period.