DOS ain't dead

Fontána v1.1 (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 04.08.2025, 04:34

> Today I released new version of font editor Fontána.
>
> http://www.laaca.borec.cz/blocek
> (English)
> http://www.laaca.borec.cz (Czech)
>
>
> Version 1.1
> + possibility to load the edited font into VGA character generator when
> shelling to DOS
> + Fontana can be now used also as command line utility which loads text
> mode VGA font. See the /T parameter
> + supports FNT subformat used in libraries GRX, MGRX and Allegro
> - improved conversion of the proportional fonts into DOS (FV) format
> - better handling of fonts with undefined characters
> - button "Create" sometimes didn't work
Do you know if OCR-A and OCR-B fonts are supported by your program? They are both proportional-format fonts. I can't directly find FNT or CPI font files in the 9x16 DOS text font format. They seem to be readily available only in rasterized TTF files. These were the fonts first approved by ANSI in 1968 for easy OCR character recognition in the computers of the day. I'm surprised that I can't find them in 9x16 bitmapped .COM DOS files anywhere. Nobody back in the day made a DOS text file out of them, unless I missed it. There were thousands of DOS textmode fonts created.

Complete thread:

• Fontána v1.1 - Laaca, 20.07.2025, 22:54 (Announce)
  • Fontána v1.1 - SuperIlu, 20.07.2025, 23:23
  • Fontána v1.1 - Zyzzle, 04.08.2025, 04:34
    • Fontána v1.1 - jadoxa, 04.08.2025, 08:25