diff --git a/Visual Studio Projects/BESM6.vcproj b/Visual Studio Projects/BESM6.vcproj
index 99ff13d2..5f2349ab 100644
--- a/Visual Studio Projects/BESM6.vcproj	
+++ b/Visual Studio Projects/BESM6.vcproj	
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 			>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCPreBuildEventTool"
-				Description="Check for required build dependencies &amp; git commit id"
-				CommandLine="Pre-Build-Event.cmd LIBPCRE"
+				Description="Check for required build dependencies, git commit id and required Font File"
+				CommandLine="Pre-Build-Event.cmd LIBPCRE LIBSDL FINDFONT tahoma.ttf besm6_panel_font.h"
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCCustomBuildTool"
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCCLCompilerTool"
 				Optimization="0"
-				AdditionalIncludeDirectories="./;../;../BESM6/;&quot;../../windows-build/PCRE/include/&quot;"
-				PreprocessorDefinitions="USE_INT64;_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS;SIM_NEED_GIT_COMMIT_ID;HAVE_PCREPOSIX_H;PCRE_STATIC"
+				AdditionalIncludeDirectories="./;../;../BESM6/;&quot;../../windows-build/PCRE/include/&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2-2.0.3/include&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2_ttf-2.0.12&quot;"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="USE_INT64;_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS;SIM_NEED_GIT_COMMIT_ID;HAVE_PCREPOSIX_H;PCRE_STATIC;HAVE_LIBSDL"
 				KeepComments="false"
 				MinimalRebuild="true"
 				BasicRuntimeChecks="0"
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
-				AdditionalDependencies="wsock32.lib winmm.lib pcrestaticd.lib pcreposixstaticd.lib"
+				AdditionalDependencies="wsock32.lib winmm.lib pcrestaticd.lib pcreposixstaticd.lib SDL2-StaticD.lib dxguid.lib Imm32.lib Version.lib SDL2_ttf-StaticD.lib freetype2412MT_D.lib"
 				LinkIncremental="2"
-				AdditionalLibraryDirectories="../../windows-build/PCRE/lib/"
+				AdditionalLibraryDirectories="&quot;../../windows-build/PCRE/lib/&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2-2.0.3/lib/&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Lib\x86&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2_ttf-2.0.12/VisualC/Debug&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2_ttf-2.0.12/external/freetype-2.4.12/objs/win32/vc2008&quot;"
 				GenerateDebugInformation="true"
 				SubSystem="1"
 				StackReserveSize="10485760"
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@
 			>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCPreBuildEventTool"
-				Description="Check for required build dependencies &amp; git commit id"
-				CommandLine="Pre-Build-Event.cmd LIBPCRE"
+				Description="Check for required build dependencies, git commit id and required Font File"
+				CommandLine="Pre-Build-Event.cmd LIBPCRE LIBSDL FINDFONT tahoma.ttf besm6_panel_font.h"
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCCustomBuildTool"
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@
 				Optimization="2"
 				InlineFunctionExpansion="1"
 				OmitFramePointers="true"
-				AdditionalIncludeDirectories="./;../;../BESM6/;&quot;../../windows-build/PCRE/include/&quot;"
-				PreprocessorDefinitions="USE_INT64;_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS;SIM_NEED_GIT_COMMIT_ID;HAVE_PCREPOSIX_H;PCRE_STATIC"
+				AdditionalIncludeDirectories="./;../;../BESM6/;&quot;../../windows-build/PCRE/include/&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2-2.0.3/include&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2_ttf-2.0.12&quot;"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="USE_INT64;_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS;SIM_NEED_GIT_COMMIT_ID;HAVE_PCREPOSIX_H;PCRE_STATIC;HAVE_LIBSDL"
 				StringPooling="true"
 				RuntimeLibrary="0"
 				EnableFunctionLevelLinking="true"
@@ -151,9 +151,9 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
-				AdditionalDependencies="wsock32.lib winmm.lib pcrestatic.lib pcreposixstatic.lib"
+				AdditionalDependencies="wsock32.lib winmm.lib pcrestatic.lib pcreposixstatic.lib SDL2-Static.lib dxguid.lib Imm32.lib Version.lib SDL2_ttf-Static.lib freetype2412MT.lib"
 				LinkIncremental="1"
-				AdditionalLibraryDirectories="../../windows-build/PCRE/lib/"
+				AdditionalLibraryDirectories="&quot;../../windows-build/PCRE/lib/&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2-2.0.3/lib/&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Lib\x86&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2_ttf-2.0.12/VisualC/Release&quot;;&quot;../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2_ttf-2.0.12/external/freetype-2.4.12/objs/win32/vc2008&quot;"
 				GenerateDebugInformation="false"
 				SubSystem="1"
 				StackReserveSize="10485760"
diff --git a/Visual Studio Projects/Pre-Build-Event.cmd b/Visual Studio Projects/Pre-Build-Event.cmd
index f5dac22d..7768c6b0 100644
--- a/Visual Studio Projects/Pre-Build-Event.cmd	
+++ b/Visual Studio Projects/Pre-Build-Event.cmd	
@@ -35,19 +35,25 @@ rem
 :_next_arg
 if "%1" == "" goto _done_args
 set _arg=
-if /I "%1" == "ROM"     set _arg=ROM
-if /I "%1" == "BUILD"   set _arg=BUILD
-if /I "%1" == "LIBSDL"  set _arg=LIBSDL
-if /I "%1" == "LIBPCRE" set _arg=LIBPCRE
-if "%_arg%" == ""       echo *** warning *** unknown parameter %0
-if not "%_arg%" == ""   set _X_%_arg%=%_arg%
+if /I "%1" == "ROM"      set _arg=ROM
+if /I "%1" == "BUILD"    set _arg=BUILD
+if /I "%1" == "LIBSDL"   set _arg=LIBSDL
+if /I "%1" == "LIBPCRE"  set _arg=LIBPCRE
+if /I "%1" == "FINDFONT" set _arg=FINDFONT
+if "%_arg%" == ""        echo *** warning *** unknown parameter %1
+if /I "%1" == "FINDFONT" set _X_FontName=%2
+if /I "%1" == "FINDFONT" set _X_FontIncludeName=%3
+if /I "%_arg%" == "FINDFONT" shift
+if /I "%_arg%" == "FINDFONT" shift
+if not "%_arg%" == ""    set _X_%_arg%=%_arg%
 shift
 goto _next_arg
 :_done_args
 rem some arguments implicitly require BUILD to also be set to have 
-rem any meaning.  These are LIBSDL and LIBPCRE
-if not "%_X_LIBSDL%"  == "" set _X_BUILD=BUILD
-if not "%_X_LIBPCRE%" == "" set _X_BUILD=BUILD
+rem any meaning.  These are LIBSDL, LIBPCRE and FINDFONT
+if not "%_X_FINDFONT%"  == "" set _X_BUILD=BUILD
+if not "%_X_LIBSDL%"    == "" set _X_BUILD=BUILD
+if not "%_X_LIBPCRE%"   == "" set _X_BUILD=BUILD
 
 
 :_do_rom
@@ -89,6 +95,23 @@ if not exist "../../windows-build/libSDL/Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)/Lib/x
 if "%_X_LIBPCRE%" == "" goto _done_libpcre
 if not exist ../../windows-build/PCRE/include/pcreposix.h goto _notice2
 :_done_libpcre
+if "%_X_FINDFONT%" == "" goto _done_findfont
+if not exist ../../windows-build/libSDL/SDL2_ttf-2.0.12/SDL_ttf.h goto _notice2
+if "%_X_FontName%" == "" goto _done_findfont
+echo. >%_X_FontIncludeName%.temp
+set FONTFILE=%windir%\Fonts\%_X_FontName%
+if not exist "%FONTFILE%" echo Can't find font %_X_FontName%
+if not exist "%FONTFILE%" goto _done_findfont
+set FONTFILE=%FONTFILE:\=/%
+echo #define FONTFILE %FONTFILE% >>%_X_FontIncludeName%.temp
+if not exist %_X_FontIncludeName% goto _found_font
+fc %_X_FontIncludeName%.temp %_X_FontIncludeName% >NUL
+if NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 goto _done_findfont
+:_found_font
+echo Found: %FONTFILE%
+move /Y %_X_FontIncludeName%.temp %_X_FontIncludeName% >NUL
+:_done_findfont
+if exist %_X_FontIncludeName%.temp del %_X_FontIncludeName%.temp
 goto _done_build
 :_notice1
 echo *****************************************************