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From: tran@peora.ccur.com (Nhan Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: VGA boards and screen fonts
Message-ID: <4322@peora.ccur.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 14:43:25 GMT
References: <548@mstr.hgc.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp, Orlando, Fl
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In article <548@mstr.hgc.edu>, nmiller@mstr.hgc.edu (norman miller) writes:
| I'm running a Hercules Graphics Plus card with a mono monitor.  I'm
| very happy with it because I can use the RAMFONT drivers to give me
| a screen font that I like.  Moreover, WP 5.1 and NotaBene support
| the card.
| 
| But my friends tell me that I'm simply not in the swim without a VGA
| card and monitor and I'm beginning to believe them.  *But* I'm not
| going to give up my lovely sanserif screen font without a fight.  The
| question, therefore, is: can I get the same choices under VGA?  If so,
| which?  
| 
| Then a second question: if I choose to work in mono mode (I hope that's
| the right phrase) will the resolution be degraded or will it still be
| VGA or SVGA quality?

  You can down load 2 user-defined character sets for VGA cards.  The
character matrix is 9x16.