[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] EGA/VGA RESIDENT SCREEN FONTS PROGRAM WANTED!

gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang) (11/15/90)

A while back I found a nice set of memory resident EGA/VGA screen
fonts.. All you had to do was load in a small 1-2K memory
resident program which changed the screen font and remained
active even in other text applications! This was really nice
but I have since lost it! It came with about 25-35 fonts!! If
anyone has the programs or know where I can get it please
let me know.. I tried SIMTEL but I don't think I was able to find
any... Thanks!
George

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schwalbe@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Jim Schwalbe) (11/21/90)

In article <kshaffer.659035683@rlxdev> kshaffer@modcomp.uucp 
(Ken Shaffer) writes:
>In <1990Nov15.042600.10316@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu 
(George Wang) writes:
>
>>A while back I found a nice set of memory resident EGA/VGA screen
>>fonts.. All you had to do was load in a small 1-2K memory
>>resident program which changed the screen font and remained
>>active even in other text applications! This was really nice
>>but I have since lost it! It came with about 25-35 fonts!! If
>>anyone has the programs or know where I can get it please
>>let me know.. I tried SIMTEL but I don't think I was able to find
>>any... Thanks!
>>George
>
>I found it on simtel in the ega directory as "egafont.arc"

I don't think this is what he was referring to.  The "egafont.arc" is the
popular CHET program (Character Editor) for EGA which comes with a few (1 or 2)
fonts for 8x14 and 8x8 characters, but none for VGA.  There is a program
called "vgafont.arc" or something like that which I've seen with 2 different
fonts for VGA but no editing capablility.  Also, there is a "fontedit.arc" or
something like that for VGA which has character editing capability like
CHET (nice user interface) but lacks any fonts.  If there really is a program
out there that has 25-30 fonts for VGA, I'd love to get my hands on it.  I
can't beleive there are people out there who are actually satisfied with
the ugly screen font provided by IBM 10 years ago and has somehow survived to
this day :-)

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