sometimes99er Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 (edited) One more font added. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 3, 2010 Author Share Posted November 3, 2010 (edited) Font 0227 has been added. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 (edited) Fonts 0228 and 0229 have been added. 0229 being the "shadow" of 0228. The "GAME OVER" is achieved by using 4 double sized sprites for shadows. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 (edited) I read the 2010 Faire report by Hal Shanafield. The winner for best site was the french ti99.com. It's a very nice site. When I looked at the pages with the TI-99/8, I noticed a different font. A closer analysis made me a bit suspicious. I looked for some roms, found 3.0 and ripped the font. And then checked a few sites about the TI-99/8. I've come to the conclusion that ti99.com has reproduced the TI-99/8 screens with a bit of artistic freedom. ref.: http://tech.groups.y...a/message/74579 http://www.ti99.com/ti998.htm http://www.99er.net/998.html http://aug.99er.net/the_future.htm So for title screen the TI-99/4, 4A and 8 are using the same 6x8 font. For Basic the TI-99/4 has a 5x6 font and no lowercase. The TI-99/4A has a 5x7 font and a 5x5 lowercase (small capitals). The TI-99/8 has the TI-99/4 5x6 font for uppercase and a 4x4 type lowercase. Well, there's some minor changes to the TI-99/4 font, but with the alphabet there's only a change to the letter K. Font 0230 is the TI-99/8. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 (edited) Font 0231 added. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 25, 2010 Author Share Posted November 25, 2010 (edited) Font 0232 added. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 I think 0231 is the coolest font I've seen yet.... That feels like an RPG font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 25, 2010 Author Share Posted November 25, 2010 I think 0231 is the coolest font I've seen yet.... That feels like an RPG font. Thanks for feedback. The font is taken from a NES achieve (a zip with some 30 fonts). I think I used only 2 of them. The fonts where just numbered and had no further info. Many fonts, both then and now, are often not completely new work, but somehow based on another (like a template). 0231, the one you're referring to, looks like it have the digits one, seven and nine not modified in the style of the rest. If I were to use this font, I would certainly modify those (and I almost did before posting). There may be different reasons for not redesigning these digits, like readability, or maybe they were in fact redesigned. Anyways, I have a bit of fun collecting these in this little corner of the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 27, 2010 Author Share Posted November 27, 2010 The Font Ripper now supports fonts from both Commodore 64 and Nintendo Entertainment System. It will now take any file, so you won't need to change any filter (choose the file extension). It will however only try and read files with extensions 64c or nes. And then there's some buttons and areas being renamed and enabled as you go along. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPVOHi-Lsc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 (edited) Hey sometimes... can we get this font? Watch the first 20 seconds of this video to see upper and lowercase font: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8P5KhepWIE ***edit*** It's interesting... this font is universally hated. =) Except by me of course... I remember this font quite fondly. =) It is probably because I saw so much of it while trying to enter "mantras", and screwing up because the font sucked so bad. I STILL want this font. =) http://hg101.proboar...lay&thread=6665 This guy did a 15 page article on how he planned to "modify" an American cart with European font... He also talks about eliminating bugs and all kind of craziness http://seldane.probo...int&thread=3810 Edited November 27, 2010 by Opry99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 (edited) Hey sometimes... can we get this font? Yeah, the letter H looks like an N. The font is added as 0233. Nice ASCII layout in US ROM @>34010. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Ha!!! Very nice! thank you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 (edited) Fonts 0234 and 0235 has been added. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Do you have the Atari ST or Amiga Topaz fonts in your collection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Do you have the Atari ST or Amiga Topaz fonts in your collection? No, but I'll look into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Do you have the Atari ST or Amiga Topaz fonts in your collection? No, but I'll look into it. I have both in TrueType, if that would help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) I have both in TrueType, if that would help. I haven't actually done any search for Atari ST yet, so if you could provide a link or attach here, then that would be great. Edit: Looks like the ST is a 8x15 pixel font !? Fonts 0236 and 0237 has been added. Amiga standard Topaz system fonts version up to 1.3 and from 2.0. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I have both in TrueType, if that would help. I haven't actually done any search for Atari ST yet, so if you could provide a link or attach here, then that would be great. Edit: Looks like the ST is a 8x15 pixel font !? Fonts 0236 and 0237 has been added. Amiga standard Topaz system fonts version up to 1.3 and from 2.0. Dude you friggen rock. You have made this young Robonian farm girl ever so happy. Oh, and I think you may be correct about the ST font; I have attached it here. (On another note, the subtle differences between Topaz 1.3 and Topaz 2.0 are interesting.) Kroah Atari ST.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Dude you friggen rock. You have made this young Robonian farm girl ever so happy. Oh, and I think you may be correct about the ST font; I have attached it here. (On another note, the subtle differences between Topaz 1.3 and Topaz 2.0 are interesting.) Hehe. Ok, if that's the font used with ST, then it looks like 8x8. Font 0002 in the collection (post #1) is Atari 800. Looks like the same basis. The Amiga Topaz basically went without strokes at ends (from serif to sans serif). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) Dude you friggen rock. You have made this young Robonian farm girl ever so happy. Oh, and I think you may be correct about the ST font; I have attached it here. (On another note, the subtle differences between Topaz 1.3 and Topaz 2.0 are interesting.) Hehe. Ok, if that's the font used with ST, then it looks like 8x8. Font 0002 in the collection (post #1) is Atari 800. Looks like the same basis. The Amiga Topaz basically went without strokes at ends (from serif to sans serif). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif Sure, sure, shoot for the obvious. We learned about Serif in second grade. I meant more the little things. Like how the @ and % went from solid to having holes, minor changes in the "w" which were seemingly unnecessary even moving to sans-serif while "v" remained untouched, the less-than and greater-than symbols, the exclamation point. All minute details, yet producing very distinctive looks. hehehe I remember when I copied the Apple ][+ (or was it the //e?) lower case characters by hand for use on my TI. I was using the font in a test game I was writing in TI BASIC and a good quarter of the memory consumption was "wasted" by character definition data. Ahhhh, good ol' days. Edited December 21, 2010 by OLD CS1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 (edited) Okay, so the Atari ST has been added (0238). As I said it looks like Atari 800 (0002), which also has very much in common with the Commodore 64 (0001). Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 (edited) Ghouls 'n Ghosts arcade by Capcom added as font 0239. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 Amazing how many legible possibilities there are for 8x8x1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 27, 2010 Author Share Posted December 27, 2010 (edited) Yeah, and I've even been a bit selective and only bothered with the more distinctive ones. This one is Gradius III arcade by Konami. http://www.hardcoreg...us/gradius3.htm Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Yeah, and I've even been a bit selective and only bothered with the more distinctive ones. This one is Gradius III arcade by Konami. Ooooo that one is very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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