Decent looking fonts with BGI for VGA

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From: Sean C. Cox
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 22:24

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   How does one get Turbo C's bitmap fonts to look reasonable on a VGA
 display? Using 8x8 characters (the default) looks rather silly on a 640x480
 screen. 
   Thanks in advance.
  
                              -Sean Cox
                               a.k.a. Skeeve


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From: skeeve@pawl.rpi.edu (Sean C. Cox)
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Subject: Decent looking fonts with BGI for VGA
Keywords: fonts, bitmaps, VGA, BGI
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Date: 17 Feb 90 22:24:06 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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