- Graffont (ZIP Archive)
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This archive contains the english and german versions.
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Notes about use in DOSBox:
These tools can be run in DOSBox, yet with a few limitations:
- DOSBox does not support the different VGA resolutions. So, for example, the parameter "/9" does not show any effect in a DOSBox window. On a DOS Machine with VGA adapter, this parameter enabled a horizontal resolution of 720px, meaning each character (defined by an 8 pixel wide dot matrix) got monitor space of 9 pixels width. This was achieved by simply doubling the 8th column of the character's pixel matrix. For regular characters, this 8th column was completely blank (representing a letter spacing of 1 pixel in 640px horizontal resolution), so effectively this screen mode caused the letter spacing to be increased to 2 pixels.
- Curiously enough, the baseline of DOSBox's internal font is 1 pixel lower than that of any VGA adapter
I encontered on a DOS machine. Graffont's default mode (
on
) only swaps some selected characters (mainly letters and digits) and leaves the rest of the system's default font unchanged. In DOSBox this results in the effect of an uneven baseline: special characters are placed 1 pixel lower than letters or digits. (The file mode, i.e. loading an IFT font file with Graffont, is not affected, since it always replaces the whole character set.)
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Important:
All DOS applications available here were compiled with Borland Pascal 7. A certain standard routine of Borland's libraries can cause problems on modern, fast CPU. The programs won't start in this case but show a Runtime Error (caused by an integer overflow during CPU speed measurement).
There is a patch available for this problem. This is a third party product not in any way supported by Isg-Software. - tppatch.zip