Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a516
From: a516@mindlink.UUCP (Jordan Melville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: how do I create fonts for CGA ?
Message-ID: <1979@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 18:00:45 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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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.

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