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Article #3259Re: Nasty.com, changing the character fonts on a text mode screen
From: Michael L. Kaufman
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1991 06:53
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1991 06:53
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In article <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rda654z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean) writes:
>Just recently I found a cute little program called "nasty.com" which I
>downloaded from a local BBS. What this program did was change all the
>characters in the text mode screen so they looked like they had been scrawled
>with a crayon or similar.
There was once a program for desgining alternative font for VGA. The output
of the program was a com program tht would load the defined font. What you
have here is a font that someone designed. Harmless, but fun (for a little
while).
Michael
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!kaufman From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Nasty.com, changing the character fonts on a text mode screen Message-ID: <1991Jun1.065352.25456@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: 1 Jun 91 06:53:52 GMT References: <1991May31.015315.18704@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University Lines: 18