From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: Printing strings in VGA 13h mode (or other graphical mode)
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:09:58 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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> > > copy the fonts in the BIOS roms.
> >
> > Aren't they copyright 1981 IBM?

"Marc" <marc AT aargh DOT franken DOT de> wrote:

> Would it be copyright breachment to copy the fonts into
> RAM during initialization, then disabling DOS and using
> the RAM copy?  I think no.

Whatever.

> > Design your own; they'll look better.

You missed the point. The ROM font looks boring.
When I start up DOS, I set the console font to a nice
font that I drew. Need source code for "set font"?


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