How to get that font I saw. [What does your OS look like?]

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How to get that font I saw. [What does your OS look like?]

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@cg123: I like the font. Is this a font used by your OS? Or it is a font used by Bochs for text mode?
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Tommy wrote:@cg123: I like the font. Is this a font used by your OS? Or it is a font used by Bochs for text mode?
I think it's the default font for terminal emulators such as xterm. I don't know how one tells bochs to use xterm as a screen, though.
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Tommy wrote:@cg123: I like the font. Is this a font used by your OS? Or it is a font used by Bochs for text mode?
I think it's the default font for terminal emulators such as xterm. I don't know how one tells bochs to use xterm as a screen, though.
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/bochsrc.html wrote: display_library: term

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term text only, uses curses/ncurses library, cross platform
Says "cross platform" but in precompiled bochs for win32 doesn't work.
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It is a XWindow font: I found similar fonts here.
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Awesome, thanks! I've been looking for a windows version of that font!

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Does anyone have a utility to edit VGA/bitmap fonts?
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Does anyone know of a good free font editor (read: not FontForge, and not nagware/trial) for Windows? I abhor FontForge's UI and controls, and when I look at a font I make in the Windows font viewer it always cuts off the tails and descenders of the fallback font due to misalignment.

If there are none, where can I read up on the OpenType file format? Edit: Found the MSDN OpenType page here.
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Tommy wrote:Does anyone have a utility to edit VGA/bitmap fonts?
MegaZeux can do that, but you'll have some trouble breaking your custom fonts out of that program.
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Re: How to get that font I saw. [What does your OS look like?]

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Tommy wrote:Does anyone have a utility to edit VGA/bitmap fonts?
I have found a nice VGA font editor: Raster Font Editor.
Supports fixed/variable fonts, can import VGA 8x8/8x16 fonts, TTF fonts, etc...
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I use this one for my kernels font. Kind of limited, but is free and easy to use. Bitmap fonts only.
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Re: How to get that font I saw. [What does your OS look like?]

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I use FontForge for TrueType fonts. Really neat and open source. Look it up.
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