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Extracting BIOS font data from Dosbox

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First post, by delt

Posted on 2017-05-10, 17:37

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Hello everyone, new user here from Montréal, Canada.

I was wondering if it's possible to extract the 8x8 font from dosbox's source code, as a file that can be used to set the textmode font using linux's kbd (setfont) utility. I downloaded the source code, and it's not immediately obvious where to start looking. I figured i'd drop a line here first, to see if someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks very much for any assistance!

Reply 1 of 4, by Qbix

Posted on 2017-05-10, 17:39

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I could point you to it, but maybe this is more of your liking:
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

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Reply 2 of 4, by delt

Posted on 2017-05-10, 17:52

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Thanks very much for your quick reply.

That old-school font pack was the first thing i found, but it contains only TTF remakes and similar of the original BIOS dumps. These BIOS dumps are what i'm actually looking for, at least a decent 8x8 dump of cp437.