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I find it amazing that the bitmap fonts that shipped with Macintosh OS 1 (and System 0.85 for that matter: different 'Chicago' and the strange 'Swan Song') stil

by jd3 11y ago

I find it amazing that the bitmap fonts that shipped with Macintosh OS 1 (and System 0.85 for that matter: different 'Chicago' and the strange 'Swan Song') still work on OS X with only a trivial modification: Splice the NFNT from the resource fork into a FontForge-readable system (7 I think?) bitmap resource fork and you are left with something that is easily exportable into a modern datafork bitmap font. I've converted them all (Taliesin and Mobile were hardest to find in their original form. I still haven't found Toronto on an install disk anywhere) and they all work perfectly on 10.11. Here's System 0.85 Chicago being used in emacs, for example. Looks great in acme as well. http://i.imgur.com/EuO2bvF.png http://i.imgur.com/EuO2bvF.png

Someone 11y ago
If you have NFNT fonts, I don't think they shipped with Mac OS 1.0. NFNT stands for 'new font', the original OS used the more logical FONT as resource type for fonts. I guess NFNT already is a conversion of an original FONT, but my memory is getting vague. I think I know there also were FOND resources at one time, but Google doesn't help much there (to complicate matters, https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/RM06/Chap6fond.html https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/... talks about 'fond' and 'sfnt' resources. There clearly has been quite a bit of evolution in font formats over time)
- jd3 11y ago
  Ah yes, you're right! I worked on this over the summer, so I must have gotten them a bit mixed up. I copied the FONT info from each one into the NFNT portion of the resource fork in a newer file, then imported that file into FontForge for conversion to OS X-readable .dfont. http://i.imgur.com/teGJ7qp.png http://i.imgur.com/teGJ7qp.png
i336_ 11y ago
Ooh. Well... now I know what at least one rainy afternoon will be taken up with! That's awesome. Actually, this reminds me of https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596... - Windows' font subsystem is super backward-compatible too. Sometimes too backward compatible. :P Also, nice close/resize/FS buttons! :D (Also visible in the picture in OP's followup)
- jd3 11y ago
  Thanks! Yeah it reminds me of this video I saw of some guy running super arcane Windows 3.1-era stuff on W8/10 or something with little modification. Btw, if you have rootless disabled, I have made that OS X 10.11 theme available for download. Simply move that GraphiteAppearance.car file to the alias marked '~ Car Resources' in the Aliases folder. Make sure to backup your original, if you do. https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/Platinum https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/Platinum
  - i336_ 11y ago
    I'm not sure about 32-bit Windows 8+, but I remember the 32-bit version of Windows Vista still had the NTVDM, which is all you need for Win3.1-era apps to "just work" out-of-the-box. With a little modification, you can run apps from Windows 1.01 and 2.03 on XP, probably Vista, and maybe even newer: http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html Also, I admittedly have no experience with OS X, but I was recently given an old G5 to play with that I hope to get up and running at some point. This theme file looks quite fun to play with - will it work on PowerPC?

by jd3 11y ago

Someone 11y ago

If you have NFNT fonts, I don't think they shipped with Mac OS 1.0. NFNT stands for 'new font', the original OS used the more logical FONT as resource type for fonts. I guess NFNT already is a conversion of an original FONT, but my memory is getting vague. I think I know there also were FOND resources at one time, but Google doesn't help much there (to complicate matters, https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/RM06/Chap6fond.html https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/... talks about 'fond' and 'sfnt' resources. There clearly has been quite a bit of evolution in font formats over time)

jd3 11y ago
Ah yes, you're right! I worked on this over the summer, so I must have gotten them a bit mixed up. I copied the FONT info from each one into the NFNT portion of the resource fork in a newer file, then imported that file into FontForge for conversion to OS X-readable .dfont. http://i.imgur.com/teGJ7qp.png http://i.imgur.com/teGJ7qp.png

i336_ 11y ago

Ooh. Well... now I know what at least one rainy afternoon will be taken up with! That's awesome. Actually, this reminds me of https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596... - Windows' font subsystem is super backward-compatible too. Sometimes too backward compatible. :P Also, nice close/resize/FS buttons! :D (Also visible in the picture in OP's followup)

jd3 11y ago
Thanks! Yeah it reminds me of this video I saw of some guy running super arcane Windows 3.1-era stuff on W8/10 or something with little modification. Btw, if you have rootless disabled, I have made that OS X 10.11 theme available for download. Simply move that GraphiteAppearance.car file to the alias marked '~ Car Resources' in the Aliases folder. Make sure to backup your original, if you do. https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/Platinum https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/Platinum
- i336_ 11y ago
  I'm not sure about 32-bit Windows 8+, but I remember the 32-bit version of Windows Vista still had the NTVDM, which is all you need for Win3.1-era apps to "just work" out-of-the-box. With a little modification, you can run apps from Windows 1.01 and 2.03 on XP, probably Vista, and maybe even newer: http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html Also, I admittedly have no experience with OS X, but I was recently given an old G5 to play with that I hope to get up and running at some point. This theme file looks quite fun to play with - will it work on PowerPC?