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From: mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Using 8514/A fonts in VGA modes
Keywords: VGA fonts
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.184601.11601@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 18:46:01 GMT
Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius)
Reply-To: mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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With his recent memory upgrade, a friend of mine now has enough
memory to run Windows 3.0 in 1024 by 768 mode.  You would think
that he'd be satisfied, but now he's griping about the text being too
small to read.  (Some people are never satisfied!)  Putting my jealousy
aside, I am asking the gurus of Usenet if there is a way to use the
8514/A fonts (which were designed for that resolution) in my
friend's Super VGA graphics mode.

One way to do this would be to copy the 8514/A fonts over the
VGA fonts--provided I knew which files were involved.  Or, I
could advise him to reinstall from DOS and tell Setup that he has
an 8514/A, then edit SYSTEM.INI to point to VGA.DRV instead
of 8514A.DRV.  Is there an easier way?  (Preferably one that's
been tested.)

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