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Screen Font Editor, version 1.00 (C) 1993, Jeremy Lilley
March, 1993
PLEASE READ THIS FILE BEFORE GOING ON !!! THANK YOU !!!
Screen Font Editor is an integrated EGA/VGA font and text-mode screen editor.
You can create beautiful text mode displays and programmers can even create
pseudo-graphic interfaces like those see in PC-Tools (R) and Norton Utilities
(R) quickly easily and link them to their programs. This is shareware
and a description of shareware can be found in accompanying .DOC files.
You may have seen ANSI files created with ANSI editors, but this allows you
to alter the fonts used by your EGA/VGA video system to create even better
displays. EGA/VGA and DOS 2.1 are required. No provisions for animation are
included, but you can edit the fonts and create the basic screens and then
animate them in an ANSI editor.
******* IF YOU UPLOAD THIS TO BBSES ******* Make sure the filename
is SCRFE100.ZIP (or .ARJ, .LZH, etc.). Do not make an SFX (self-extracting
version) make sure you have all files listed in PACKING.LST (including
FILE_ID.DIZ and DESC.SDI).
Note that an "SFF" file (which will be referred to frequently) is a
font file for Screen Font Editor and a "SFS" file is a screen file. These
files are extremely efficient, highly compressable, and interchangeable
with other standards using the built-in utilities. With the registered
version, you can even convert these files into a self-executing COM format.
You can print the SCRFE.DOC file by using "COPY SCRFE.DOC PRN" and
by making sure that you set 1 inch margins. You must do this yourself as
the file does NOT have margins built-in.
BEFORE YOU RUN SCREEN FONT EDITOR, go through the demo (SFE_DEMO.EXE)
and look at the list of files. You should brief yourself with the DOCs too.
Note that Screen Font Editor may have memory conflicts and thus you need to
have CLEARMEM.COM run before you run Screen Font Editor. You should RUN IT
FROM SCRFECM.BAT. It that batch file crashes your system, remove the
CLEARMEM line from SCRFECM.BAT and try it that way. In any case, you must not
run Screen Font Editor without at least skimming through the DOCs because
you will will not be able to do much from it at all.
Several SFF (font) files have been included to dress up your display.
You can load them with either FONTKEEP.BAT (loads them and keeps them in
memory as a TSR) or DISPFONT.EXE (loads the font, but in volitale video memory
without being a TSR and it will go away after the next mode set.) You can
type something like "FONTKEEP MEDIEVAL" to load the medieval-looking font to
memory and keep it there with a 576-byte TSR or "DISPFONT SCRAWL" to load
a scrawlish "Bart Simpson"-like font into volitale video memory. (The scrawl
font can be good as a joke to run before some text mode business application!)
I hope you enjoy Screen Font Editor, version 1.00 and that you
seriously consider registering this if you find it of use to you. It is only
$12.95 (plus S/H but minus some discounts) and it can dramatically make your
computer's text-mode operation look *much* better. Enjoy some of the many
benefits of registration !