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Sure, but I refuse to call this a faithful recreation of the aesthetic until the fonts look correct. :D

On a related note, I did start working on some tools to work with legacy .FONs for this exact purpose earlier this year, but the project is iceboxed for now...




Sounds like it was a hard problem!


Mostly figuring out the details of the old formats enough to be able to render them without having an actual Windows rasterizer... https://github.com/akx/winfont/tree/dev is half of it, the web `<canvas>` frontend is currently still private :)




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