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Fatbits

Version:

1.0 (1990-Jun-08)

Release date:

Friday, 1 June, 1990

Home:

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Fatbits

License:

Open source (generic)

Interface:

PMShell

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

John Ridges

Fatbits is a pixel magnifier program for OS/2 Presentation Manager. Source code and binaries included. Public Domain.

Fatbits magnifies an area of the screen centered around the pointer and paints the giant pixels into a small, tastefully decorated window. This can be indispensable when you want to see something right down to the last pixel. A similar program was into Windows 95 CD-ROM in 1995!

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:

Fatbits v. 1.0 (1/6/1990)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/graphics/imagepro/Fatbits-1_0.zip
Fatbits v. 1.0 (1/6/1990)
hobbes.os-2.in/download/os2/apps/graphics-7/misc-27/Fatbits_1990-06-08.zip