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mfw my program that redefines the text mode character font actually works, and then unintentionally curses the IDE as well lol

the Borland DOS IDE but with all the "H" characters replaced with a binary dot pattern. it looks cursed
30 Sep 2023 at 23:44 | Open on mastodon.social
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Malcolm Herbert

@tubetime that's a UI I haven't seen in a long long time ...

30 Sep 2023 at 23:56 | Open on jauntygoat.net
Briala

@tubetime Back in the early days of EGA, I came across a little program called "egafont" that was a TSR that changed the text mode font. It came with a few fonts and I later wrote an editor and made more. I even disassembled it at one point (with Debug!) to see how it worked. It was very reliable. If I stuck with the conventional font size, it worked with everything.

1 Oct 2023 at 0:08 | Open on aus.social
Григорий Клюшников

I'm sure that "mode" command used this same method to switch to a Cyrillic font.

1 Oct 2023 at 0:21
Neven Falica

@grishka @tubetime It's probably exactly the same for old YUSCII DOS font, too.

1 Oct 2023 at 0:32 | Open on ohai.social
Jernej Simončič �

@elkarrde @grishka @tubetime On EGA/VGA it did; on Hercules you had to swap the ROM (and if you were fancy, you got one that was twice the size, and added a switch at the back to switch between original and YU font).

1 Oct 2023 at 8:31 | Open on infosec.exchange
Neven Falica

@jernej__s @grishka @tubetime Back in the day I've had a locally assembled XT (Ivel Trend) with an EGA screen and a small program that would change all the "unused" letters into letter with diacritics, but my brother got localized Olivetti M24 PC with Olivetti's version of CGA graphics, and he wasn't able to switch from weirdly looking DOS prompt - C:Đ> 😅

1 Oct 2023 at 9:07 | Open on ohai.social
Григорий Клюшников

Neven, Japanese Windows, to this day, shows "￥" as a path separator because of some quirk of Japanese DOS character encoding and people getting used to it.

1 Oct 2023 at 9:20
Jernej Simončič �

@elkarrde @grishka @tubetime Yeah, C:Đ> was what we had for the first few years, too (and ŠĆ instead of [], on Hercules card), until my father bought a VGA card and monitor and we switched to CP852.

1 Oct 2023 at 9:39 | Open on infosec.exchange
Tube❄️Time

got it working! fake graphics cursor in text mode DOS.
1 Oct 2023 at 1:55 | Open on mastodon.social
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