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What did you use before you had Windows?

Well, shoot, I'm not at all familiar with Windows.  I just haven't had
much luck with it.  Using the Microsoft 'paint' program, how on earth
would you get your images cut down the middle so the left side can be
reflected over to the right side?  For instance, most chess pieces are
symmetrical along a vertical axis, and I simply haven't the slightest
idea how to do it with the software that comes with Windows.

Black and white seems particularly appropriate to graphics for chess
programs.  What graphics editor did you use for the Macintosh?

'most chess pieces are symmetrical along a vertical axis, and I simply
haven't the slightest idea how to do it with the software that comes with
Windows.'

In MS Paint, make sure you uncheck the option 'Draw Opaque' under
'Image', and then draw the left- or right-half of your image. Leave the
rest of the image white. Then select all, copy, and while the copy is
selected, choose Image / Flip-Rotate / Horizontal. That will flip the
'copy' to its own mirror-image. Then you can adjust its position with
the mouse to line up with the other half.

Thanks!  I'll give that a shot.

Say, can you suggest a way for me to strip off the HP laserprinter headers
to arrive at a Windows compatible font of some kind?  Most HP laserprinter
fonts predating the HP3 series were similar to .BMP fonts, and as such
were non-scalable.

Strip off HP laserprinter headers? Sorry, no idea on that one--not even
sure I understand the question. Maybe someone else knows.

In a day and age where many people think it too much work to do anything
other than rastering out a single line of pixels to the laserprinter, and
then, as needs be, repeat it, row by row, until the picture is printed, it
might go past some people - the ones that only have Windows - that there
are still some people out there who sit around loading 'softfonts' into
their memory, and then, after exporting those fonts to a laserprinter,
find it convenient to juggle them around with no more than a short ESC
sequence to effect an overall change in printout. (It sure beats having to
reload 64K of bytes every time you want to switch from italic to upright,
or from plain to bold, or large to small, including subscripts and
superscript, just to print out a document of medium complexity.)

Back in the olden days, laserprinters tended to have just enough room for
a few dozen softfonts, and the only way to get them in, was by sending ESC
codes to the laserprinter, almost always with a preliminary 'printer
reset' code consisting of two bytes:  1b 45  - so I was wondering if you
had any tips on how to modify my laserfonts from the olden days for use
with Windows?  Of course, things are more complicated than snipping off
two bytes.  It turns out that there are hosts of other ESC sequences that
need to be fixed up, or turned around.  Like whether a font is
proportional or fixed, upright or italic, that sort of thing.