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It's using a console font: Ubuntu users may see the message "Failed to set font height." Term Boy uses the setfont command to change the font height, which loo
by glhaynes 12y ago
It's using a console font:
Ubuntu users may see the message "Failed to set font height." Term Boy uses the setfont command to change the font height, which looks for the font default8x16.psfu in /usr/share/consolefonts. The font can be downloaded from the Kbd project. Download any of the archives and the font will be located in data/consolefonts.
- cogburnd02 12y agoHow is this font able to do graphics like this?
- glhaynes 12y agoThe original Game Boy display was 160x144 pixels. The font's name implies that it's made of 8x16 pixel characters. So I'm guessing each glyph in it is used to represent a unique configuration of 2x4 Game Boy pixels because that'd mean an 80x36 character terminal, a fairly common terminal size, would fit perfectly. Since the Game Boy display only has 2-bit color depth (so, 4 colors), that means the font would need 4^8 (65,536) glyphs.