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- This is a 6x7 GDOS monospaced font, intended for use with STalker. (But you
- can of course use it for almost any purpose - it's just that it's mainly of use
- as a terminal program font.) Ordinarily STalker has a lot of problems
- displaying things in medium resolution on a stock ST, since none of the fonts
- it comes with are truly suitable for creating an 80x24 or larger display. This
- font allows you to use STalker in medium resolution and have it display a full
- screen's worth of text in a window. It is based on one of the fonts STalker
- comes with, PC_ANSI.FNT. It looks a little funny in places, because I
- effectively had 5x6 pixels to work with, but it's quite useable and readable.
-
- You'll need to add the font to the GDOS ASSIGN.SYS file. Copy ANSICOLR.FNT
- into your GDOS fonts folder, and open ASSIGN.SYS with your favorite text
- editor. Look through the .SYS file until you find a line that reads something
- like "03p SCREEN.SYS". Insert another line immediately after this line and
- type in "ANSICOLR.FNT". The "03" is important, because it signifies the
- beginning of the list of fonts to be used in ST medium resolution. Reboot
- after you're done so that GDOS recognizes the new font.
-
- Now, for STalker. Select the font with STalker's "Terminal Settings" dialog
- box. After you exit it, you'll need to resize the STalker window to get the
- most out of the font. Clicking the full-size box (in the upper right hand
- corner of the window) ought to do the trick. Now use "Save Configuration" in
- the File menu to record your window size and font settings.
-
- If you full-size STalker's window, eliminate the menu bar, and eliminate the
- horizontal scroll bar (look in the "Options" menu), you will get an 80x25
- display. (Probably 80x26 if you use STalker as a program, since then it
- doesn't have the extra area in the window used for the menus.) This will
- revert to 80x24 after a configuration save and reboot, because of STalker's
- quirks with respect to saving a window size that is almost as tall as the
- screen.
-
- I hope you enjoy STalker in medium resolution with an 80x25 display!
-
- Tim Seufert
-
- P.S. This font is freeware. Use it as you see fit.
-
-