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First post, by ET

Posted on 2005-04-30, 00:18

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Hello
I want to run some games with hebrew dos font.On the old computers,the hebrew fonts were burnt into the video card.On new computers,you can get the same effect by using some hebrew support files or the mode command : mode con codepage prepare=((862) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\hebega.cpi) on your autoexec.bat.

However,the support files do not have any effect on dosbox.I also can't run the mode command because it is not recornized by the dosbox dos version,even if I put the mode.com file on the mounted drive.

Any help?!

Reply 1 of 4, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-04-30, 07:08

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there are some utils that can load a font.
I saw it once with a hebrew editor.
you'd better ask around on a hebrew people dos forum or so.

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Reply 2 of 4, by lwc

Posted on 2005-04-30, 09:19

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To run mode.com (even if it worked), autoexec.bat is not enough. It also needs config.sys, which DOSBox doesn't support.

However, you can use an external font loader, like I did in here (that topic also gives a link to the topic, which gave links to the font loader program).

Last edited by lwc on 2021-07-26, 21:42. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 4, by Guest

Posted on 2005-04-30, 09:59

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Thanks.I will try it.

Reply 4 of 4, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-04-30, 17:30

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DOSBox supports custom text mode fonts? Sweet! I should dig up a copy of Angband and post screenshots of it running in DOSBox.

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