On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 01:21, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2003 01:23:33 +0200 > martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote: > > > before, the fonts were really nice, smooth, and a pleasure to look > > at. now it looks like a 1980 atari. nothing against 1980 ataris. > > > > does anyone have a clue what happened? > > In another thread on this list in the last couple of days, someone mentioned > that the order of lookup for font paths has changed, and another person > discovered that his XF86Config-4 was missing some font paths. > > Kevin Okay, I started up atari800.x11, and am reminded of how great those characters were. I always installed my own replacement font, along with a couple of tools that gave me multitasking (if you call a clock in the upper right corner multitasking - on a 1.78 MHz CPU, it was to me.) The *good* stuff I did on that system was the assembling debugger that I wrote to patch the machine like mad to my tastes, including trying to figure out a way to give myself 24x80 screens via graphics modes (it worked, and was illegible) and a windowing, multitasking system - it "theoretically worked", but was just too much overhead for memory management emulation, graphics routines and task switching, plus the graphic screen. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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