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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #30 on: 18 February 2006, 02:38 »
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I posted a link to download QBasic once and Refalm didn't mind as it's abandonware - just like Windows 3.1 which is just as old. Seriously I wouldn't worry about Microsoft sueing us for pirating their antiquated software - they've got better thing to do.

Except that QBasic and Windows 3.1 are the basis for Vista/Longhorn - you could get into a lot of trouble!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, Microsoft does not in fact have better things to do than chase people who have supposedly violated their copyright and/or EULA.  Watch yourself.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #31 on: 18 February 2006, 02:46 »
Well I don't know but thay haven't shut down any sites that offer downloads of old copies of QBasic or even Visual Basic, I don't see why they'd waste their time.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #32 on: 18 February 2006, 03:04 »
It often amazes me what Microsoft considers to be worth their time.

One of their favorite tactics here (not sure about Europe/Asia) is to look over corporate purchasing.  If your company has licensed 120 copies of Microsoft XP, but has 250 employees, Microsoft will call your business and accuse you of using illegal copies of Windows.  They will stop at damn near nothing.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #33 on: 18 February 2006, 14:38 »
We must be fucked then as half our empolyees don't use computers.

Look this site hasn't been shut down dispite having downloads for all versions of MS Basic up to Visual Basic 4, including the Qbasic source code which is very interesting.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #34 on: 18 February 2006, 18:05 »
Use Python or Java, the real programming languages ... not QBasic or any Basic for that matter
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #35 on: 18 February 2006, 18:54 »
There's FreeBASIC if you want BASIC. I like it because it's a nice and easy programming language and it's the only one I've ever bothered to fully learn and now it's free I've become interested in it again.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #36 on: 19 February 2006, 01:58 »
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I posted a link to download QBasic once and Refalm didn't mind as it's abandonware - just like Windows 3.1 which is just as old. Seriously I wouldn't worry about Microsoft sueing us for pirating their antiquated software - they've got better thing to do.


Abandonware is one thing. Fonts are another. On another forum, I've recently seen lawyers rise from their coffins and go after an administrator for the most innocuous of invented copyright infringements. I have no desire to see that happen here. Please don't post those fonts here, no matter how old they are.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #37 on: 19 February 2006, 16:54 »
On second thoughts they might be TrueType.



There again it says OpenType at the top - this is very confusing. :confused:
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #38 on: 19 February 2006, 18:50 »
Most fonts on windows are OpenType, mixed with a few TrueType according to the MS Paint Text Toolbar.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #39 on: 19 February 2006, 20:31 »
OpenType wasn't even announced until 1996.  I'm wondering  how this font would be reported if you looked at it in Windows 95.
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #40 on: 24 February 2006, 22:13 »
Possible solution = Font Forge
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Re: truetype fonts (and windows) can blow me
« Reply #41 on: 24 February 2006, 23:45 »
You mean open it with FontForge and see what it really is?  Good idea.
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