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This sounds fascinating, although "DOSBLOOD.EXE" only returns one Google result, being this comment. I assume it would work by constantly modifying the bitmap font?

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iirc thats what it did, cycled through a "palette" of bitmap fonts, but i dont recall if it did the whole block or individual characters...

lol. that's funny. no it wasn't animated, just drippy letters. and it was 1995 so i might have misspelled it, memory and all.

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