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From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Nasty.com, changing the character fonts on a text mode screen
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.065352.25456@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 91 06:53:52 GMT
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In article <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rda654z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean) writes:
>Just recently I found a cute little program called "nasty.com" which I
>downloaded from a local BBS.  What this program did was change all the
>characters in the text mode screen so they looked like they had been scrawled
>with a crayon or similar.

There was once a program for desgining alternative font for VGA.  The output
of the program was a com program tht would load the defined font.  What you
have here is a font that someone designed.  Harmless, but fun (for a little
while).

Michael

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