Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!igloo!ddsw1!obdient!vpnet!cgordon From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: vga fonts??????? Message-ID: <276f0fca-652.3comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Date: 19 Dec 90 10:55:03 GMT References: <1990Dec14.214126.22692@SanDieg Lines: 33 >Author: [David Lord] >I have used a program called vfont to do this, I got it from my local >Works OK on my 386SX except that it interferes with some programs, TSRs, >and device drivers. The one that immediately comes to mind is PRODIGY but >then lots of things interfere with PRODIGY. I may also have had problems >using it with Windows 3.0 although it works OK with Desqview. I use VFONT here (386DX), and have not uncovered any compatibility problems. Windows 3.0 works fine. So does WordPerfect 5.1. Some programs don't _use_ the loaded font, but it's reloaded when you exit the program. The font is loaded for the current screen mode; if you load the font at 80X25 and then switch to 80X50, you'll have the plain font. But you'll get the fancy one back as soon as you switch back to 80X25. (This happens because the VGA actually looks in a different place for the 80X50 font.) The fonts are stored in RAM on the VGA. Resetting the VGA (or just changing screen modes) will clear this RAM and thus the font. Hence the TSR feature of VFONT. According to the docs I got with VFONT, the program is a derivative of PC Mag's FONTEDIT. FONTEDIT allows you to produce your own screen fonts, however it makes no provision for reloading them after a mode change. VFONT is for VGAs only. (It does work on an EGA, but you lose a few lines on the bottom of the screen. And since this is where your cursor usually is, it's quite inconvenient...) FONTEDIT works with both EGA and VGA systems. ----------------------------------------------------- Gordon S. Hlavenka cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us Disclaimer: Yeah, I said it. So what?