Bitmap OS/2 Programming Font sample

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Sunday, 8 May, 2016

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A simple skeleton to create your bitmap fonts for OS/2 Presentation Manager and VIO windows. Customize your OS/2 as you like!

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Bitmap OS/2 Programming Font sample (8/5/2016, eCSoft2) Readme/What's new
Bitmap OS/2 Programming Font sample This is a font mainly designed for programming on OS/2 Systems. It allows viewing text at extremely small pixel points (6px). As a result, you may see large portions of code in compact way avoiding the sliding of your window programming editor. The glyphs are inspired by the System VIO fonts you can see inside an OS/2 command window and resolutions availables start from a 10x6px matrix, but deviate slightly from the classic Sistem VIO, due to copyright and perhaps into a vague attempt to perfect them: Indeed Bitmap OS/2 Programming Font at 6px seems a bit small than the corresponding System VIO size (instead it looks like 5px). Could be not interesting, but if you need to see as much code as possible while you are programming, you need a very small and readable font that can make difference ;-)! This font is available only for OS/2, and was developed in bitmap format using the IBM Toolkit Font Editor bundled with eComStation and with the help of Fatbits, a pixel magnifier program for OS/2 Presentation Manager by John Ridges. To build the font from sources you need Open Watcom. To install rename os2pgftr.dll into os2pgftr.fon, copy it into PSFONTS folder and use OS/2 Font Palette. Bitmap OS/2 Programming Font is copyrighted FREEWARE. This package include only the Watcom project files to explain how simple is to build a bitmap font for OS/2, *.fnt source files are not included. eCSoft/2 (1999-2016)
 hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/samples/misc/BitmapOS2ProgFont_2016-05-08.zip
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