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ROM Character Sets Are Slowly Disappearing DMAC recently learned of another unheralded change in video adapter card's ROM with some of the newer cards. The three character sets originally in the vga video adapter ROM have become one or two -- and only garbage lets you know. Most image users know that the DMACI environment variable sets both the density and the character size for imaging. Densities (V:) can be as follows: LOW 640x480x16 And the characters (F:) can be as follows: BIG1 and BIG2 are currently supplied by tables in the bin directory bit10x18.aid and bit12x30.aid. The next release will have to supply BIG and MED tables also -- because they no longer are in the ROM on some video adapter cards.SMALL 8x8
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