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From: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Subject: Re: Using 8514/A fonts in VGA modes
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.153546.1946@bigsur.uucp>
Keywords: VGA fonts
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Reply-To: andrzej@bigsur.UUCP (Andrzej Bieszczad)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1990Jul20.184601.11601@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> 
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 15:35:46 GMT

In article <1990Jul20.184601.11601@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>,
mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams) writes:
> 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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Ensure that your applications will handle this. In my case (386Enh,
ATI 1024x768x16), Word for Windows would not work with the fonts for
8514. When I loaded for example Helvetica for VGA, the system fonts
changed as well, so it helped Win4Win, but the original idea was
gone.

I quit after two long evenings - 600x800 is much faster. Now I only
wait for 800x600x256.


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