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Typography in 8 bits: System Fonts
- rbanffy 16y agoNot 8-bits, but for the Lisp-machine nostalgic: http://www.eurogaran.com/downloads/lispmfont/ http://www.eurogaran.com/downloads/lispmfont/
- RodgerTheGreat 16y agoReminds me of Monaco.
- rbanffy 16y agoNow, all want a faithful 327x font. A 2260 would be cool too. http://www.nfrpartners.com/comphistory/2260a.htm http://www.nfrpartners.com/comphistory/2260a.htm
- ilikepi 16y agoIt's interesting how seeing the screenshots (for me specifically, the Atari one and to a lesser extent the c64 one) can instantly trigger a flood of memories and nostalgia. Wish I hung onto my XE, if for no other reason than to mount it on my wall...
- Bud 16y agoEntirely agree; fonts have great power that way. I was transported back to age 11 in my basement with an Atari 400, and to a friend's room who had a C64. All kinds of details you've forgotten can come rushing back into active memory if the right switches get flipped. Ah, the days of laboriously typing in BASIC programs...
- Luyt 16y agoPOKE 53280,0 POKE 53281,0 That would make the background of the screen black on the C64. I really hated the default blue background (coming from the PET and S100 systems), but otherwise I very much liked the C64. I would always issue these POKEs after powering it on. Later I burned my own patched KERNAL ROM which would make the screen background black by default. Later, after my C64 died, I transfered this EPROM into my dad's SX-64, which is still sitting in his attic and sometimes powered up to see if it still works. It does ;-)
- kabdib 16y agoThe missing curly-braces in the Atari font made ports of C compilers a little awkward. In '82, trigraphs hadn't made the scene yet, and my roommate used $( .. $), but it was pretty ugly. In my opinion it was still way less ugly than trigraphs, when they arrived ....
- tricky 16y agoHow about a 2 bit font: ▀▄▀ █▄█ █▀█▀█ █▀█▀█ ▀▄▀
- lancer383 16y agoLet's see it with "9 > 8" ;)
- ghostDancer 16y agoA trip down memory-alley with the Atari and ZX-81 fonts. ;-) This is the same person who has made Envy-code-R[1], my favourite font for the terminal and text editors. [1]http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... Edited to add a link to the font.