Hi Jim and everyone,

Had fun during the get-together. Playing around with Virtual Cameras, OBS and 
live streaming the video from my good old Pentium Pro. 

:-)

During the online get-together, Jim wanted to know what was the font I was 
using in FreeDOS.

It was one I created decades ago in my earlier DOS days. I wanted bigger text 
in TEXT MODE on that tiny screen. So the LARGE.FNT was born and LARGE.COM to 
make it permanent. Anyhow, I wasn’t using my normal computer with email, 
bookmarks and such to easily send any links. 

You can get the TSR at 
https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/bin/LARGE.COM 
<https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/bin/LARGE.COM>

You can get the font itself at 
https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/COMASM/LARGE.FNT 
<https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/COMASM/LARGE.FNT> It is a simple 
bitmap file and should work fine with programs that can change text fonts. 

You can also view the source for the Turbo Pascal program that turns its own 
EXE into a COM binary and the code for LARGE.PAS in the 
https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/COMASM/ 
<https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/COMASM/> directory.  I didn’t 
have a lot of money and could only afford one compiler. So, doing it in Turbo 
Assembler, MASM or other assembler wasn’t an option. 

Also… He wanted to know more about my text mode SMOOTH SCROLLING directory 
listing program. The source is in that Github repository. But, a direct link to 
the compiled version is 
https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/bin/DS.EXE 
<https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/raw/master/bin/DS.EXE>

Please note, the smooth scrolling only works on REAL hardware and in DOSBOX. I 
have not seen any other Virtual Machines that fully implement the required VGA 
functions needed to accomplish this in text mode. If you run it under 
VirtualBox, VMware, QEMU or one of those virtual machines, you just get slow 
scrolling. :-(

Anyhow…

:-)

Jerome



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