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AGI Development Tools / Re: WinAGI 2.2.3 goes International (sort of)
« on: June 24, 2022, 11:57:52 AM »
Thank you for all your work on these great improvements, AGKorson.
Thrpwng's SQ1 translation uses the DOSBox " KEYB " command to utilize a custom codepage that, thanks to the string hack, changes the default font for both AGI graphics and text modes. It's used in the SQ1 French translation because the default English 437 codepage accents are a bit boring, but could also allow for Cyrillic letters or other special font cases. The custom font needs to be packed into a .cpi file, which can be done with an old DOS tool called CPI120 (download cpi120.zip from: http://www.kostis.net/freeware/)
The custom codepage font can also be repurposed to create an agi-font-dos.bin file used by ScummVM. This allows for consistency between both DOSBox and SVM. All possible because of WinAGI 2.2.3!
Thrpwng's SQ1 translation uses the DOSBox " KEYB " command to utilize a custom codepage that, thanks to the string hack, changes the default font for both AGI graphics and text modes. It's used in the SQ1 French translation because the default English 437 codepage accents are a bit boring, but could also allow for Cyrillic letters or other special font cases. The custom font needs to be packed into a .cpi file, which can be done with an old DOS tool called CPI120 (download cpi120.zip from: http://www.kostis.net/freeware/)
The custom codepage font can also be repurposed to create an agi-font-dos.bin file used by ScummVM. This allows for consistency between both DOSBox and SVM. All possible because of WinAGI 2.2.3!