R0ger Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 I'm looking for some fonts for my project. Is there some place with public domain Atari fonts ? I mean the standard fonts, 8x8, ATASCII encoding. Or any 8x8 font, reorganizing is not big deal. I'm especially looking for something like Gothic, historic font, but readability over decoration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Check out https://w.itch.io/world-of-fonts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 A bit stylized, but there are some 8x8 fonts here: http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/archive/bitmapfonts.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 There's some raw atari 1k font files here: http://gury.atari8.info/chr_sets.php I'm sure I have a collection on my disks... there are others strewn across other PD disk collections... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baktra Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 And you can also consider borrowing from our C64 friends. A Charset Gallery. I take it it wouldn't be difficult to write a script that would convert from c64 charset to Atari charset, if you really like one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarixle Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 just create your own font. you don't need to be a rocket scientist nor spend more than 30 minutes to create 128 chars 8x8 Pixels each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) just create your own font. you don't need to be a rocket scientist nor spend more than 30 minutes to create 128 chars 8x8 Pixels each. Well there for sure would be some fixing, but I'm also looking for inspiration, and if I can start with something, it's always nice. And I only need 40 something, not interested in lowercase, and I want to have as much space left in the charset as possible. Edited September 21, 2018 by R0ger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Well there for sure would be some fixing, but I'm also looking for inspiration, and if I can start with something, it's always nice. And I only need 40 something, not interested in lowercase, and I want to have as much space left in the charset as possible. Contact me and I'll create one for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Here are some old A8 fonts, sorted from A-Z (via subdirs) on MyDOS disks.... Fonts_AtoZ.zip 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULS Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Here's some I've collected over the years. Fuls' 1307 Atari Font Images.rar 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Here's some I've collected over the years. Fuls' 1307 Atari Font Images.rar That's incredible, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 Thanks for all the replies, I think I have more than enough to choose from. Do you have some tool for viewing FNT files ? For Atari or PC ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) Thanks for all the replies, I think I have more than enough to choose from. Do you have some tool for viewing FNT files ? For Atari or PC ? How many do you want for the A8 - one, one dozen, one hundred ?!? (Every font editor on the A8 can be used for this.) Okay, here is one font viewer for the A8 that can display two (or more?) fonts at once - good for comparing them. Attached also a font finder from german Computer Kontakt magazine, therefore it uses german language. Menu options: 1) search memory, 2) search diskette (sectors), 3) search program file, 4) save as file (think you will understand the sub-options). Afaik, the program is reset-proof so if you are using a real A8 you have to power-off and back on again... If I remember correctly, Rainbow-DOS would also let you load+view FNT files (options N and M), Koala files (option J) and Micropainter files (option O)... http://www.atarionline.pl/utils/8.%20DOS-y/Rainbow%20DOS.xex FNTVIEW.xex FONTFIND.xex Edited September 21, 2018 by CharlieChaplin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULS Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I really enjoy using Atari FontMaker1.3 on my PC. Atari FontMaker 1_3.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Perhaps not everyone knows that with Recoil you can easily view Atari fonts on your PC. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarixle Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 BOSS-X, Disk C contains a lot of fonts (feat. german umlauts). They are 8x8 Pixels standard fonts, but have additional information about the size - speak: they are proportional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuel Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Perhaps not everyone knows that with Recoil you can easily view Atari fonts on your PC. Wow, that works really well indeed. Thanks for the tip. You can also view and edit Atari fonts using Graph2Font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 Recoil seems to work best .. browsing through 1307 fonts isn't so simple 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Just for completeness: http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1236639234&archive=&start_from=0&ucat=7&ct=poczatki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tane Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 335 Fonts - atarionline.pl.rar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitoco Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Here's some I've collected over the years. Fuls' 1307 Atari Font Images.rar I was using RECOIL to browse through all that fonts and I noticed some charsets have the fonts rotated in 90 degrees and mirrored. What are they supposed to be used for? Some kind of arcade with a 45 degress mirror over a rotated CRT? As they include the ATASCII graphics chars ($00 to $31), I'm sure that they were not taken from an arcade game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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