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BIOS font, ROM font: Where to get them?

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Mar 15, 202636531 views

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I was wondering if, and how I could get the fonts used in BIOS ROM (the font you see when entering BIOS setup and during early stages of boot). The same font is used in VirtualBox, when booting a VM. I'm a Linux user, and I'd prefer the font as bitmap pixel font, so I could use it, but when it's av…

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The in-ROM VGA fonts supplied in the firmwares of both Bochs and VirtualBox — the Plex86/Bochs VGA firmware — are the VGA fonts ( ) from Joseph Gil's package. They are right there in the Bochs/VirtualBox/Plex86 source code, beneath a big comment say…

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