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PCFP command-line fonts for DOS

Introduction

This is an old set of fonts for the DOS command-line (full-screen mode only). They work by overwriting VGA RAM character bitmaps with new ones. These utilities aren't memory resident, so the bitmaps get reset by any events which change video modes. These fonts were made, using an editor by Michael J Mefford, by Peter Caffin.

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Contents

Original fonts include:

• 'PCFP Line Sans' : A very nice line sans font.
• 'PCFP Big' : Good from a distance?
• 'PCFP L.E.D.' : Stereo system Light Emitting Diodes.
• 'PCFP Gaudy' : A silly, over-stylised font.

Also included is:

• 'PCFP Standard'

This was a capture of the VGA 80x25 font set used by the motherboard I owned in 1992. Its copyright is unknown.

License

These fonts are now licensed under a BSD style license. This means they're free to use.

Maintainers of the Linux and BSD kernels are encouraged to extract the fonts and use them in their projects if they feel they'd be useful.

There's a specific clause in the license for the Linux kernel maintainers to let them license a copy of the fonts as GPL2.

Download

fontpack-1.2.zip - Version 1.2 (12k).

Requires MS/PC-DOS and any VGA card. Fonts support 80x25 mode only.