mda2psf(1)

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version 1.1.3 · 2 versions
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💖 mda2psf — PSF Tools girlie edition ✨

okay so bestie, you know how old IBM PCs had that iconic blocky font? this is the girl who gets it out of the ROM for you 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

mda2psf — extract the font from a dump of the IBM PC MDA ROM 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mda2psf [--codepage=page] [--compaq] [INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So mda2psf takes the 14-pixel font sitting in the character ROM that IBM's MDA and CGA video cards used, and converts it to PC Screen Font format. slay 💜

ngl, raw2psf(1) can already handle most ROM dumps — including the two 8-pixel fonts in this ROM — but the 14-pixel font? she's high maintenance. she needs a specialised utility. that's literally why this program exists, no cap 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --codepage=page — adds a Unicode directory for the codepage you name, and you can identify it by number or by name. the original MDA ROM used codepage 437 (iykyk). wanna see the full list of valid codepage names? go check psfpages(1) 🫶
  • --compaq — assume your input file is in the format the Compaq CGA ROM uses, not the IBM MDA/CGA ROM format. different ROM, different vibe 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

psfs2mda(1), raw2psf(1), psfpages(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>. 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie — this one's from PSF Tools, Version 1.1.3, dated 28 April, 2026, and it ate, fr fr 💖✨🧚

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