VDU is the Cyrillic screen & keyboard driver developed by Oleg V.Baranovskiy with English/Ukrainian layouts.
I have used VDU for many years in MS-DOS and IBM OS/2 (DOS session). Later, after the Linux era came, I extracted the font from VDU driver and used it as a separate console font in Linux and BSD systems.
- vdu.com - VDU driver MS-DOS execurable file
- l30.com - 80x30 mode MS-DOS execurable file
- vdu-25.png - an initial screen after the VDU driver execution in MS-DOS (80x25 mode)
- vdu-30.png - an initial screen after the VDU driver execution in MS-DOS (80x30 mode)
- vdu.txt - TEXT format for all symbols
- vdu-glyph.png - a glyph file (all symbols on the same page)
- vdu.8x16.raw - font in RAW format
- vdu.8x16.psf - font in PSF1 format
- vdu.8x16.psf2 - font in PSF2 format
Just execute vdu.com from command line or from c:\autoexec.bat to make it working.
To make sure that VDU driver is loaded in High memory, use LH in front of the command:
LH C:\UTILS\VDU.COM
Check the location of the driver with mem /c/p command.
In case, you want to switch to 80x30 mode, use l30.com utility before VDU execution:
LH C:\UTILS\L30.COM
LH C:\UTILS\VDU.COM
Use setfont command to apply VDU console font:
setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/vdu.8x16.raw
I used this scenario to change the console font in NetBSD:
wsfontload -N vdu /usr/share/wscons/fonts/vdu.8x16.raw
wsconsctl -dw font=vdu
Good luck!