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Microelectronics | VGA ROM Fonts
Synopsis
I once had a Chips and Technologies ISA VGA card that had an interesting ROM font. Then I had another very interesting ATI EGA card with a beautiful font. And now I have an ATI VGA Wonder 16 with a very appealing font. The fact is that all these three ISA cards were very slow. I sold the first two cards and kept the ATI VGA Wonder 16 though. From times to times I miss the Chips and Technologies card. For some reason the PC was always throwing an audible VGA error beep-code but it worked perfectly without any hassles. Anyway let s come back to modern times. My DIY System Design adventures require a fast ISA VGA card. Thus I bought a new (!) old stock (and pricey, too) Tseng Labs ET4000/W32i equipped with 2 Mb RAM from a guy called Ted Allen, owner and designer at Micro-Labs, Inc in the U.S.A. This card works perfectly. I can play any MS-DOS game, including Quake at 320 x 200 without any problems. However, since I still do a lot of MS-DOS pro