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Hi! Sorry, I've been at work all day... The VGA module on which the VT-100 is built around used that font (I am not sure of its name - I guess "MDA/VGA font" w
by howerj 8y ago
Hi! Sorry, I've been at work all day...
The VGA module on which the VT-100 is built around used that font (I am not sure of its name - I guess "MDA/VGA font" would do). That VGA module came from here: http://www.javiervalcarce.eu/html/vhdl-vga80x40-en.html http://www.javiervalcarce.eu/html/vhdl-vga80x40-en.html.
The project actually uses Terminus by default now. That video of the system up and running is quite old, I should make a new one. You can switch between Terminus (8x12, KOI8-R) and VGA Font (Latin-0). There's space for two more fonts in the Block RAM - if you wanted to make a new you're welcome to!
The fonts are in 'https://github.com/howerj/forth-cpu/tree/master/fonts' https://github.com/howerj/forth-cpu/tree/master/fonts'.
- rbanffy 8y agoI'm far less urged to translate the 3270 font (I'm a huge fan of it) if you are relying on Terminus. It'd probably be better to support other fonts DEC terminals supported. I'll dig a bit into that. :-)
- howerj 8y agoThat's great, raise or ticket or send me an email if you find anything useful. It's not too much work for me to convert things into a usable format if I have a BDF file (8x12 only - anything else would require hardware changes!) for the font.
- rbanffy 8y agoI'm very fond of double width and height, but the DEC terminals implemented double width by halving the pixel clock rather than a proper font. Minitel did it right.