peters@dec-pulman.UUCP (02/25/86)
Some of you ST owners may have gotten a copy of the desk accessory called
"ST Font Loader", as described in the January 1986 issue of Antic. It does
a really nice job of redefining the standard font used by the ST for all
its text. There are about a dozen font files available.
Unfortunately, this program does not work with TOS in ROM, as one of the
authors, Patrick Bass, hints might happen in one of the early paragraphs
of the article. Just to check if this problem had been corrected, I just
called Antic and talked to Patrick. He said the main thrust of the article
was tutorial in nature, rather than describing a solid application. The
problem, he said, was that the program directly overwrote the character
set used by the ST. This character set is now is ROM. A workaround would
be to store a character set in RAM, and change the character set pointer
so that it points at the RAM version. However, he has no plans to do this
in the forseeable future. (Too bad, I wanted an updated copy for our
club's library.)
Sooo, looks like a good project for someone out there!
/Don Peters, Digital, 617-689-1242/
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