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You’re right. Topaz is eerily familiar though, and I never used an Amiga. Wondering if a well-known MSDOS program used it. Turbo Pascal?
by sigil 3y ago
You’re right. Topaz is eerily familiar though, and I never used an Amiga. Wondering if a well-known MSDOS program used it. Turbo Pascal?
- arexxbifs 3y agoThose are text mode DOS programs and used whatever font was in the graphics card’s character ROM. Perhaps you’re thinking of IBM’s CGA or EGA fonts, which were somewhat similar. https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
- sigil 3y agoI had a CGA graphics card, and it’s quite possible I’m remembering the CGA-2y font!
- Tourniquet 3y agoIf you're British, then you might recall 'The Chart Show' in the 80s/90s that used an Amiga interface as the overlay. Otherwise, it's pretty iconic..
- kstrauser 3y agoThey were all similar in a lot of ways. There are only so many ways you can draw the Latin alphabet in an 8x8 grid. There were plenty of variants to be sure, with different baselines, serif vs sans, kinda of descenders, and all that. Still, it’s inevitable that several are going to look similar. But Topaz was a Commodore font, and I’m sure no other OS distributed it.