WienFxSys CGA Origin
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This is the CGA variant of the Fixed System font used in Windows 1.0 to Windows 3.0 as Windows 3.1 onward dropped support for CGA display monitors.
The ISO/IEC 8859-1 character encoding is designed for languages like English, including languages from western Europe, namely French, German, Italian, and Spanish. It has characters from the Basic Latin section,and additional characters from the Latin-1 Supplement for accented letters and symbols. However, this does not cover modern symbols that Unicode covers, like the Euro sign (example).
All 190 characters are listed here as this font only supports Basic Latin & Latin-1 Supplement. No additional characters can be added since it complies with the ISO/IEC 8859-1 character encoding.
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Info:Created on 16th December 2025. Last edited on Wed, 18th February.
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@AskGamerViennaBinders - Very nice recreation. Thank you for "rescuing" this one! :^)
Heya @Goatmeal! Thanks for the compliment!
This font was extracted through Notepad on Windows 2.03, which the operating shell was released on 9 December 1987.
I wonder how you managed to get the characters above 0x7F on Windows 2.03 if it doesn't have a charmap?
@BWM i guess she got a keyboard with dead keys and got some of them
You didn't need a Character Map to create the characters since it did not exist in Windows 2.0. the QuickBasic code I had written was the "generator", and Notepad was the "renderer".
This is the code.
I then redirected the output to a file which I then opened it using Notepad in Windows 2.0.
@AskGamerViennaBinders - Very nice. Whenever I had to make an ASCII list, I would do it the hard way: type the [ALT]+0### (032-255) keypad codes in a TXT file. I, too, have been getting back into programming QuickBasic (QB64) over the last few years...
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