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- ** 2L8 EGA/VGA Screen Font Editor Too Late Version 1.11 **
- * Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1995 *
-
- Copyright (c) 1994-1995 by Jouni Miettunen. All Rights Reserved.
- Freeware - use, share and enjoy!
-
- The truth of it is, learning, like travelling, and
- all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good
- sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more
- insufferable, by supplying variety of matter to his
- impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding
- in absurdities.
- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
-
- ** WHAT IT IS
-
- Nowadays everybody uses either PostScript Type 1, TrueType or at least
- proportionally spaced multicolor bitmap fonts. The plain EGA/VGA single
- color display fonts are uninteresting and pretty much useless in modern
- graphical applications.
-
- Well, I really don't care. I felt like writing an EGA/VGA bitmap screen
- font editor might be interesting (and easy) and I was absolutely right.
- I'm not sure, if I learned anything during the process, but at least it
- was relaxing.
-
- ** WHAT DO YOU NEED
-
- 8086+, standard VGA (640x480x16) and a mouse.
-
- ** HOW DO YOU USE IT
-
- This program is self-documenting, just press the buttons and see, what
- happens. Right mouse button reacts faster in some places.
-
- ** WHAT DOES IT DO
-
- Edit a set of 256 characters, one at a time:
-
- Character width 8, height 1-16 pixels.
-
- Shift up/down/left/right, rotate +/- 90 degrees, horizontal/vertical
- mirror, inverse/clear/fill all, swap left and right halves.
-
- Store and paste 5 characters, undo all changes, reset to default.
-
- Rotate up/down/left/right single row/column, remove single row/column,
- insert selected row/column in selected place.
-
- ** SAVING AS A FILE
-
- Save or overwrite a file, load any file (first max 4096 bytes read).
- Make sure the filename is selected BEFORE pressing load/save button.
-
- ** WANT MORE ??
-
- The single character editing functions are the most powerful I've seen
- in any font editor in any operating system, but the functions handling
- all characters simultaneously are a bit too few and lacking in power.
-
- There should be a possibility to test the font in user-selected mode ie.
- build-in text editor with selectable mode and color.
-
- The max allowed EGA/VGA screen font height is 32 scan lines, not 16 as
- allowed in this program. Also some nonstandard EGA implementations can
- use 16 pixels wide characters.
-
- There should be a file I/O dialog.
-
- I wrote this program for fun and interest, not because I needed it. I
- cannot give any guarantees that I wouldn't make the listed enhancements,
- but the odds are high.
-
- In any case it's always nice to hear from happy users.. Actually from
- any users at all. Such an incident would also noticeably increase the
- possibility that I might a) update this b) release something else.
-
- ** HISTORY
-
- 1.00 - it works with pen and paper
- 1.01 - it works with computer
- 1.02 - ROM fonts finally found and in use
- 1.03 - file I/O. Default stack is still 4K
- 1.10 - first public release
- 1.11 - bug fixes, thanx to NMN for reporting
-
- ** THE AUTHOR
-
- That's all folks! It's such a simple program I don't expect any bugs to
- surface, but if they do, please let me know. Suggestions are naturally
- welcome, but I'm happy with it as-is. Hope you can find some use for it.
-
- Mr. Jouni Miettunen
- Rautatienkatu 20 A 10
- FIN-90100 OULU
- FINLAND - EUROPE
-
- * Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1995 *
- ** 2L8 EGA/VGA Screen Font Editor Too Late Version 1.11 **
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