Thanks
Ennovy.
The
Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack has been in my posting queue for a bit, so here goes...
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack started out with the idea of paying tribute to ancient PCs and their bitmapped, pre-GUI typography (if you can call it that). It was inspired by similar efforts that cover other vintage machines: classic system fonts from the Amiga, C64, Apple II, Mac, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit/ST etc. are all celebrated. On the other hand, the IBM PC and its clones seem to get little love... except for that one VGA text mode font (which has been remade numerous times, to varying degrees of success). This collection is here to remedy that, and to bring you pixel-perfect remakes of various type styles from text-mode era PCs -- in modern, multi-platform, Unicode-compatible TrueType form (plus straight bitmap versions).
Windows Console / Command Prompt / Terminal
At least in Windows 7 and earlier, only bitmap (raster) fonts can be freely selected for use in the Windows console. TrueType fonts require a registry edit -– to add them to the list, you'll have to start regedit.exe and open this key:
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\ TrueTypeFont
You'll probably see two fonts defined (Lucida Console and Consolas), as "0" and "00" respectively. To enable more TrueType fonts, add a new String Value with one more 0 in its name (the first one you add will be 000, then 0000 and so on). In the Value field simply enter the font's name, e.g. MxPlus IBM VGA 9x16. Hit OK and exit the editor. The font will now be available in the Properties dialog for console windows.
here's two other similar free fonts I fancied:
