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- DIRECTIONS FOR CREATING A 40-LINE FONT USING THE VGAMAX FONT UTILITIES,
- AND INSTALLING IT USING VGAMAX:
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- CREATING THE FONT
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-
- 1. start out at the DOS prompt.
-
- 2. install VGAMAX like this: VGAMAX /N1
-
- 3. press Ctrl-Alt-6 to switch to VGA 50-line mode (or EGA
- 43-line mode).
-
- 4. run GRABFONT to snag the font: GRABFONT ROM.F8
-
- 5. run FED to edit the font: FED ROM.F8
-
- 6. press [F4] to change to size of the font.
-
- 7. press the [up] arrow twice (so that the new point size
- is 10).
-
- 8. press [Enter]. FED will instantly turn the font into a
- 40-line font (10-point font), and will even make the box
- characters look right.
-
- 9. press [F2] to save the new font.
-
- 10. type in a name for the font (40LINE.FNT or whatever. I
- use the convention where I give an eight-letter name to
- the font and use an extension of "F" and the point size
- of the font, so I personally would call the font ROM.F10
- or something).
-
- 11. now press [ESC] to get out of FED.
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- 12. uninstall VGAMAX: VGAMAX /U
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- INSTALLING THE FONT
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-
- 1. install VGAMAX however you want, but make sure you load
- the 40-line font you just created into one of the font
- banks.
-
- 2. now use this command: VGAMAX /A<z>
- where <z> is the bank you loaded the 40-line font into.
- note that you could also just tack on /A<z> to the end
- of the command line you used when you installed VGAMAX
- in step 1.
-
- 3. now, whenever a program tries to switch to 50-line mode,
- VGAMAX will activate your 40-line font. this may cause
- conflicts with some applications that expect to actually
- get 50 lines, but many applications that can use more
- than 25 lines are intelligent enough to ask the video
- card how many lines there are.
-