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 -- George Wang University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (217) 332-4019 INTERNET: gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: gargoyle!igloo!gwang
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 :-) .---------------------------------------------------------------------------. : Jim Schwalbe .----------------. "Half of what I say is : : Hardware Research Group .--+-------------. | meaningless; but I say it : : Encore Computer Corp. | | E N C O R E | | so that the other half may : : Mail: {bu-cs,talcott} | `-------------+--' reach you." : : !encore!schwalbe `----------------' - Kahil Gibran : `---------------------------------------------------------------------------'