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The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack started out with the idea of paying tribute
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to ancient PCs and their bitmapped, pre-GUI typography (if you can call it
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that). It was inspired by similar efforts that cover other vintage machines:
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classic system fonts from the Amiga, C64, Apple II, Mac, ZX Spectrum,
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Atari 8-bit/ST etc. are all celebrated. On the other hand, the IBM PC and its
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clones seem to get little love... except for that one VGA text mode font
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(which has been remade numerous times, to varying degrees of success).
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This collection is here to remedy that, and to bring you pixel-perfect remakes
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of various type styles from text-mode era PCs - in modern, multi-platform,
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Unicode-compatible TrueType form (plus straight bitmap versions).
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Although the goal is to make it a complete resource, the main focus is on
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hardware character sets: the kind that's located in a ROM chip on the system
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board or graphics card, which is what you'd see by default when working in
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text (or graphics) mode. Software-loadable fonts are also within the scope of
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this collection (if associated with a particular machine or display system),
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so some of these have also made it in.
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WWW: http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
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