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pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) writes:

> In article <3441@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Alexander Pruss) write
> 
>  > Can you load a different font into a Hercules compatible display
>  > adaptor?  (Without any hardware modifications.)  If so, how?
> 
> [..]
> You can, however, read this table so that your
> software can use it to display characters in graphics mode which look
> very much like the characters in text mode.

Yes, but this is not so easy. One way would be to read out or define the
char set as byte pattern. Then You need a routine that emulates the int 10h
calls (eg tty) for herc in graphics mode (same as EGA / VGA would do). But
this will work only if Your software does *not* change the video mode *and*
uses int 10h for video output. I used this for an own program, worked fine.
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