philpem,
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Does anyone know if there were alternative character generator ROMs available for the IBM MDA/Hercules adapter?
I have a Paradise Color/Mono Card [1] with a socketed 27C64, it'd be fun to have some switch-selectable alternative fonts.

1: https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/paradise/color_mono_card.php

foone,
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@philpem I wrote some software to generate new ROMs for it, so you can put new fonts in it if you burn your own eeprom.

https://github.com/foone/mdafont

philpem,
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@foone aha! I knew someone had done this. I was more curious if it was a thing people did back in the day - like swapping the alphanumerics for OCR A/B.

foone,
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@philpem it's the kind of thing where I'm sure SOMEONE had to have done it, especially given how easy it would be to just swap in a different mask rom, but I'm not aware of anyone who did it back in the day

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