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HZK16 becomes BOOTFONT.BIN!
I studied the format of BOOTFONT.BIN and wrote a conversion program. Put HZK16 in the same directory as BOOTFONT.BIN, run it once, and the font patterns in HZK16 can be added to BOOTFONT.BIN. In this way, the Microsoft dot-matrix Chinese character library can be replaced. In the places where there are no Chinese characters in the original HZK16 library, the "?" and "□" filled in BOOTFONT.BIN are retained. This program also retains other non-font pattern information.

Note: After downloading, change the extension of the attachment to COM to run.

The level is really high, it can be changed around. The font of this Microsoft font library is not much different from the default Chinese character system font. Why does the Chinese display in the Microsoft system boot menu have no hollow lines and has super good compatibility?

[ Last edited by xugaohui on 2009-1-4 at 16:05 ]

As far as the Chinese character display mode is concerned, it is estimated that NTLD R is in a graphic display mode, not like VTmagik/CONFECT which are in text display modes. The defect of text mode display - cracks, cannot be eliminated without resetting the VGA registers, and such resetting will necessarily cause compatibility problems. This is a hardware "fault", and software is powerless!

[ Last edited by 本是 on 2009-1-4 at 17:42 ]

The compatibility of ntldr from Microsoft should be okay. Why is BOOTFONT.BIN much larger than the dot - matrix font library of Chinese character systems?

Originally posted by xugaohui at 2009-1-4 19:03:
The compatibility of the ntldr released by Microsoft should be no problem. Why is BOOTFONT.BIN much larger than the dot-matrix font library of Chinese character systems?

Because in Microsoft's BOOTFONT.BIN, besides the Chinese characters from zone 1 to zone 87, there are also zones 88 to 94 (although they are just filled), and there is also an ASCII character font library in front of the Chinese character library. In addition, the font library contains 3 and 4 bytes for ASCII and Chinese characters themselves, and the entire file has a file header. Therefore, BOOTFONT.BIN is much larger than the dot-matrix font library of Chinese character systems.

Supplement: In the ASCII library, the characters before the space character are table-like characters and the characters after 7Eh are blank and Japanese characters. The glyphs between the space and 7Eh are single-line, the same as Chinese characters, and should work well in UCDOS.

[ Last edited by 本是 on 2009-1-5 at 11:09 ]

I'll post a screenshot of the replaced startup:

Why not give up HZK16 and use BOOTFONT.BIN?
After all, XP menu also supports DOS boot.

Powerful, I need to study hard

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the楼主's sharing.