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Lord Crucifier
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 47 |
Thoughts on turning charsets into modern fonts
What are your thoughts on an hypothetical automated conversion of C64 1x1 charsets to OTF, TTF or WOFF font files, released as an archive in a similar fashion to SOASC=? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5020 |
https://codepo8.github.io/logo-o-matic/ |
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Monte Carlos
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 351 |
Instead of grabbing all the fonts maybe we could use the fonts directly from the CSDB database |
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Lord Crucifier
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 47 |
Are ripped charsets available on CSDb? |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 328 |
Quoting Lord CrucifierAre ripped charsets available on CSDb?
Not that i know but you can look here for example:
Font Creation Competition 2013 |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
I fail to see how converting 1x1 charsets to modern formats would be a good idea. Just look at some websites that use the original chargen (Slarti's is a good example).
On the other hand, collecting fonts *is* a good idea. like the link Oswald posted. which has few multicolor/bitmap fonts.
I suppose a proper database of fonts (1x1 - big) could be done. Personally I'm most interested in the 1x1 and 2x2 fonts of old demos, usually there are no credits for those, so that should prove quite a challenge. |
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Stryyker
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 465 |
Useful for diskmag editing. I tried messing around with converting to bitmap fonts a year ago. I could never find good docs for .fon format used by Windows. All my attempts failed to work although I could manage to make .fnt files for Windows and manually load them in to my own code and Windows could draw them. |
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Rastah Bar
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 336 |
http://kofler.dot.at/c64/font_01.html |
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Digger
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 421 |
That font there "Alternate Reality Multi" (bottom middle column) looks like the font used in Hein's latest intro Warpzone. Just sayin' :) |
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Hein
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 933 |
Kinda, yeh. But I used the ROM font, because no more memory. |
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bugjam
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 2491 |
Quoting Lord CrucifierAre ripped charsets available on CSDb?
There are a few charset collections availble, partly ripped, partly self-made - e.g.
Phobos Fonts Disk
Charre Disk Nr 1
Devil's Fontcollection
Charset Collection 1
Charset Collection #1
AEG Char Collection
The First Commodore Character-Set Collection
Contribution 2 (+ The Magic Font's Collection)
Also many old noters/writers came with a collection of (usually ripped) charsets to choose from or to load from disk. |
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