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Author Topic: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?  (Read 1549 times)

Tone

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Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« on: January 15, 2008, 10:49:00 am »

Hello.

I want to copy famous but old ROM fonts from ancient VGA cards into this great game. My suggestion is a FREE-DOS bootdisk with an application than copies the VGA ROM Font to this disk. Later a software will generate the *.bmp files out of the ROM image from the disk that contains the old ROM fonts from the old computer.

In future, we may create a database with a large variety of old VGA fonts from this great EGA and VGA cards.

I had a great TSENG ET 3000 card some years ago and its ANSI set of characters was fantastic. I never threw it away - and maybe it was worth it ...


Anyone ?!?

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Armok

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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2008, 12:46:00 pm »

SPAM!  :mad:
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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2008, 12:49:00 pm »

Aye, your right! He's only posted once. The word "free" an all caps is a dead giveaway.
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Wiles

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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2008, 12:57:00 pm »

Oh yeah. The dreaded VGA font spam. They're going to sell you floppy disks, be on the lookout!

It couldn't possibly be a real person talking about a tileset based on older fonts. No way!   ;)

[ January 15, 2008: Message edited by: Wiles ]

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Fenrir

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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2008, 01:06:00 pm »

Have a look at "his" profile. If he be human, let him come forth and defend himself!

[ January 15, 2008: Message edited by: Fenrir ]

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Red Jackard

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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2008, 01:44:00 pm »

Tone: Are any of the fonts here similar to what you are looking for?

Benefit of the doubt...

[ January 15, 2008: Message edited by: Red Jackard ]

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Capntastic

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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2008, 06:34:00 pm »

The mod forum would probably be better at helping with this.
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Fenrir

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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2008, 06:43:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>The mod forum would probably be better at helping with this.</STRONG>

IT IS SPAM!
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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2008, 06:58:00 pm »

You must admit, this is an interesting form of spam though. It doesn't blatantly advertise anything and is actually making what seems to be a valid but wrongly placed request.

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Re: Old VGA - Bios ROM Fonts, anyone?
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2008, 09:22:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Fenrir:
<STRONG>
IT IS SPAM!</STRONG>

It should still go in the mods forum.

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