Bill,
in each Pc BIOS there is a character generator, the standard CGA type.
You can found it at offset 0xFA6E. It is still here from the first PC.
I have tried to run  bigchar.bas on my IBM ThinkPad 765 and it still work.
Hereafter you can found the very old gwbasic prog and if you don't have it the
gw,I can send you a copy of it .
If you don't want to use it I attached the content of two 2716 : the first is a
chargen hand-crafted
by myself in the '70s for a 6800 system with a 6845 video controller, the
second is from an 80 char
video card for APPLE ][+.

HTH.




                       Claudio Rachiele IW0DZG



 PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
 02/27/99 12:07 AM
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Subject: Re: Searching ... custom LCD module characters

Does anybody happen to have a standard 5x7 ("old style") font in binary
form somewhere?  (mine is on... Um...  Punched cards.  I carefully saved.
them from a college project because I never wanted to type them in again.

Note that you can save significant rom space for a full character set
(at the expense of code to extract the rows or columns in the appropriate
format) by lying the bitmap on its side (5 bytes for 5 columns, 8 bits wide.)

BillW



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