Anthony W.Henry wrote:
One thing I'd add is that using Delphi it's possible (although not trivial) to
embed a .fon as a resource in an executable. I don't know the extent to which
this can be done using (in particular) Lazarus on Windows or on Linux.
I imagine the easiest way is bin2obj an
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:19 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Anthony W.Henry wrote:
>
> > I really don't have to worry about the few Kilobytes
> > it will add to the program file :). Anyone know any good
> > GPL'd or Public Domain bit fonts ?
>
> Remember that you can easily preprocess it w
Anthony W.Henry wrote:
I really don't have to worry about the few Kilobytes
it will add to the program file :). Anyone know any good
GPL'd or Public Domain bit fonts ?
Remember that you can easily preprocess it with RLL. I'd expect a bitmap fount
to be very compressible.
Google for "Pro
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:32 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> >> The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> >> to be root ?How do I make the 16 bit segment/offset address
> >> into a 32 bit pointer to access these fonts ?
> >
> > This fon
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:47 +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > > to be root ?
> >
> > Yes. Yes.
> >
> > "
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:48 +0100, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > to be root ?
>
> Yes. Yes.
>
> "/dev/mem" should be the raw memory device (where even the BIOS "image"
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > a fallback text output method if font files aren't available.
> >
> > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > to be root ?How do I make the 16 bit segment/offset address
> > into a 32 bit pointer to access these fon
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
to be root ?How do I make the 16 bit segment/offset address
into a 32 bit pointer to access these fonts ?
This font is not accessible. Linux does not allow direct hardware
access unless you write a
On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > > to be root ?
> >
> > Yes. Yes.
> >
> > "/dev/mem" sho
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > to be root ?
>
> Yes. Yes.
>
> "/dev/mem" should be the raw memory device (where even the BIOS "image"
> can be re
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A task I used to do regularly when programming in Turbo Pascal
> was to read the BIOS Rom Font.I first picked this up to make
> "Splash" Screens for Text Mode programs that wrote out big
> several lines high using the character it was made of
>
On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> to be root ?
Yes. Yes.
"/dev/mem" should be the raw memory device (where even the BIOS "image"
can be read from), but this device which is only accessible to root.
> Ho
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