Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-07-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 12:32 PM Daniel wrote: > > Is anyone familiar with how DOS fonts work? > > There are some .com files that will change the original font with another and > ya can create your own. I created a TI-99/4aA font to use. > > So how does it work? Is the hardware font cached

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-06-15 Thread Jerome Shidel
Like Aitor mentioned there are some basic tools for it. (Like GNU and Display) Also, there are some others. V8PowerTools VFONT.COM can load the normal raster fonts (like GNU load font) temporarily. When the video mode is reset (or changed) the fonts will revert back to their previous state. Im

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-06-15 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, The graphic card maintains information of how character glyphs are made out of their character code. Basically it is limited to being able to represent just 256 characters together at a time (there is a trick to double this to 512, but doesn't make a difference here). Each of such configur

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-06-15 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/15/2022 10:30 AM, Daniel wrote: Is anyone familiar with how DOS fonts work? There are some .com files that will change the original font with another and ya can create your own.  I created a TI-99/4aA font to use. So how does it work?  Is the hardware font cached and the cache is change