Soft fonts for 8bit?

[danwinslow]

Does anyone know of any soft-font tools or examples? I mean something that does not use the built in font at all, but lays down a bit map font of its own...not to build up pictures but to increase the character count across the screen. I have heard of a 64-char wide font and of course the 80 column fonts. Just wondering if there were any tools or examples in this regard.

[Wrathchild]

Wow, that takes me back, this was a submission I did

for Dean Garraghty's News Disk way back. Its called

'Fancy Font Display Routine' and shows its age.

I'd say that the stuff seen the the Czech/Polish demos

would probably be better for you, but I don't have

the sources for those .

 

So, the ATR in the zip has a working example, just

boot up with basic and type: RUN "D:EGFFDR.BAS"

 

The sources (Atari Asm Editor IIRC) and docs are included.

 

Regards,

Mark

ffdr.zip

Edited June 18, 2005 by Wrathchild

[MrFish]

Does anyone know of any soft-font tools or examples? I mean something that does not use the built in font at all, but lays down a bit map font of its own...not to build up pictures but to increase the character count across the screen. I have heard of a 64-char wide font and of course the 80 column fonts. Just wondering if there were any tools or examples in this regard.

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There is a variable size font editor that comes as part of the Diamond GOS package. It is included on the Diamond Paint disk. The 64-column font is on the Diamond Write disk. This editor is very primitive, but may be of some use to you.

[danwinslow]

Thanks, guys, great info.

[Wrathchild]

I'd recommend anyone to go for Dean's Atari CD-ROM.

Great value for money! Plus memories of those AMS shows .

 

http://www.dgs.clara.net/