Re: COMPLETELY amazed! How is it done?

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From: Kyle Anthony York
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:19

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In article <C16zAy.KIz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:
>I thought I knew a thing or two about how VGA fonts work on the IBM
...
>
>different chars appear on the screen?  And why would WordPerfect remap
>the normal a..zA..Z to something else?
>
>Thanks.  I'll be able to sleep again when I know.

you can load a seconds 256 character font using the various BIOS load font
functions, then change bit 7 of the attribute from the standard
'blink' to 'use alternate font'. sorry this is so vague, i haven't done it
for several years (since EGA). if you need more specifics let me know

--kyle

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