a516@mindlink.UUCP (Jordan Melville) (06/02/90)
In article <8387@uswat.UUCP>, rolan@gauss.uswest.com (Rolan Christofferson) > wrote: > I would like to change the font from the IBM character set to something else. > Where is the character set stored in memory? I have seen font editors for > EGA and VGA, but I am stuck with a lowly CGA, so those editors are no good to > me. > > Am I attempting to do something easy or difficult? You're attempting to do something that's impossible unfortunately. The only possible way I can think to go into a different font would be to force the card into a graphics mode and have the dos 'shell' use graphics as characters... The problem is that it would be slow, memory hungry, and would not work within programs. Jordan. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jordan C. Melville Voice: (604) 943-7155 Vancouver, BC BBS: (604) 943-3503 (2400baud) "There's blood in the UUCP: {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a516 streets, it's up to my a516@mindlink.UUCP ankles" - The Doors
doug@ozdaltx.UUCP (Doug Matlock) (06/04/90)
In article <8387@uswat.UUCP>, rolan@gauss.uswest.com (Rolan Christofferson) writes: > I would like to change the font from the IBM character set to something else. > Where is the character set stored in memory? I have seen font editors for EGA > and VGA, but I am stuck with a lowly CGA, so those editors are no good to me. > > Am I attempting to do something easy or difficult? > > -=+[ rolan ]+=- In "Programmer's Guide to the EGA/VGA", I read that the character generator for CGA is in ROM. I guess this implies that it is not possible to modify the characters, whereas it is fairly simple to do so on the EGA/VGA which stores its character generator in RAM. -- Doug. "If you want Peace, work for Justice."