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From: shevett@mccc.uucp (Dave Shevett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: VGA boards and screen fonts
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.202252.10146@mccc.uucp>
Date: 20 Aug 90 20:22:52 GMT
References: <548@mstr.hgc.edu> <4322@peora.ccur.com>
Reply-To: shevett@mccc.edu (Dave Shevett)
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In article <4322@peora.ccur.com> tran@peora.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
=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.
=| 
=| But my friends tell me that I'm simply not in the swim without a VGA
=| card and monitor [...].  *But* I'm not
=| going to give up my lovely sanserif screen font without a fight.  

Ah, someone true to my heart.  I was stuck in the same situation, until I
was turned on to a *FANTASTIC* piece of software / (w/hardware for EGA)
called UltraVision from Personics ( don't have all the specifics here,
E-Mail me and I'll dig it up).  

In a nutshell - downloadable fonts (about 15 come with the package), with
different fonts for different video modes (80x43 on EGA, 80x54 on VGA).
The downloadable is somewhat of a misnomer, but you get the idea.
Redefinable color palettes, and BLAZING screen i/o.  It's around $79.95
last time I checked, and I'd HEARTILY recommend it.

=| 
=| 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?
=

Monochrome VGA is the same resolution as color vga, just... well...
monochrome.

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