What is the name of the this DOS font? Where and how to add it? Why is there a 1 pixel gap?

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Published on 2012-03-15T02:13:34Z Indexed on 2012/06/10 16:42 UTC
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So basically I somehow stepped into this webpage: www.braindamage.vg

And the first thing that hit me hard was the lovely DOS fonts, so naturally I wanted to get them into my IDE badly.

Opened the html source file and CSS file to find the font name:

@font-face
{
    font-family: 'Perfect DOS VGA 437';
    src: url('http://www.braindamage.vg/wp-content/themes/braindamage/dosfont.eot');
}
@font-face
{
    font-family: 'Perfect DOS VGA 437';
    src: url('http://www.braindamage.vg/wp-content/themes/braindamage/dosfont.svg#dos') format("svg"), url('http://www.braindamage.vg/wp-content/themes/braindamage/dosfont.ttf') format ('truetype');
}

So I download the font, add it using Control Panel -> Fonts. But once I start using it (notepad, MSVS 2008 & MSVS2010) I notice that it looks slightly off:

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It seems like there's 1 extra pixel between each character.

How it should look:

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What is causing it and how to fix this?

Is it the windows XP? (i have disabled font smoothing)

Or is there something wrong with the font file?

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