potatohead Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 This thread rules! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 28, 2010 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 (edited) Well, I don't know why I didn't stop when I got to the 100 mark, but it's a bit of fun, and I guess I should be able to use the resource later. Here's 1986 KiKi KaiKai (Mysterious Ghost World) arcade by Taito. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I'm glad you are doing it. Just used a few characters outta the collection today for a micro-game project. This is such a great resource! The TI graphics info was a good, interesting read as well. There are so many little, bizzare graphics trade-offs made in the old machines. Fun to know about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 30, 2010 Author Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) Always nice to know when someone finds this thread a tiny bit interesting, fun or useful. This is Legendary Wings arcade by Capcom from 1986 added as font 0242. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 (edited) Ooh, I love this one. Ninja Masters arcade by ADK from 1996. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 (edited) Shadow Dancer arcade by Sega from 1989. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 (edited) See post #209. Edited February 24, 2011 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Very informative and great work!!! That's a pretty cool setup you've got running there.... I liked the Cyber Run font as well. Very.... Cyber-ish.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) Classic99 now offers 16K VDP dump including 8 bytes of VDP registers. The latter tells us where to find the character patterns within the 16K VDP. The process of extracting graphics (256 characters, not full bitmap), is simply to enable "Scroll Lock" (it's likely on your keyboard), and then press F10 (Dump RAM). This video then demonstrates Limelight 1.4. Again the fonts/graphics saved can be used with utilities like Magellan, CartographPC and Grapefruit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiBThPqUY7Q Edited February 24, 2011 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What program do you use to capture your screen videos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 What program do you use to capture your screen videos? Camtasia Studio 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 (edited) This one should be from Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman by UEP Systems. Published 1999 for PlayStation. Oh - fits 40 column mode too. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share Posted April 22, 2011 (edited) Dig Dug II was mentioned with this one, but I was unable to confirm with images from different platforms, spinoffs and remakes. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 (edited) Gotta expand the Pineapple utility with the ability to search for pattern. First exact match or best match. Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I snagged this from the "Angry Birds" J2ME game. Can you use it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 Thanks. The font looks very nice. It requires 16x16 pixels for characters to fit. I've included a few 8x16 and 16x8 in the collection since you can experiment with these, although not in a straight forward manner, with the pineapple utility. I can't shoehorn a 16x16 into it, without some heavy redesign. The font you presented is non proportional (fixed size), which is good for now, 10 characters wide and 8 characters high, that's 80 characters. Each character takes 4 character patterns, so the set, as is, would require more than the standard 256 characters available with GM1 (ordinary graphic mode). I have an unfinished demo or input for game laying around codenamed "big scroller". It only features uppercase, digits and limited punctuation in both 8x8 and 16x16 (takes up an awful lot of character patterns anyway). Scrolling 16x16 pixel characters (for short messages) looks very cool even at 8 pixel speed (has to update in sync with the frame update to be good). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted July 28, 2011 Author Share Posted July 28, 2011 I like fontstruct.com ! I think it's relatively easy and intuitive to design an 8-bit font and create a TrueType font (typically ttf file extension). Excellent for PDF manuals, Flash retro games, utilities and much more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 11, 2011 Author Share Posted October 11, 2011 16 fonts added making it a total of 264 fonts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 (edited) One more ... Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share Posted November 8, 2011 (edited) One more font added ... Edited April 9, 2013 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 One more font added ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky007 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 i never noticed that you converted sooo many fonts !!! I feel so stupid you have already converted the fonts C64 two years ago, and I've lost hours to do it again a month ago..... thanks for your amazing work ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 i never noticed that you converted sooo many fonts !!! I feel so stupid you have already converted the fonts C64 two years ago, and I've lost hours to do it again a month ago..... thanks for your amazing work ! Thank you. Always nice with a bit of feedback. And don’t feel stupid, retro-wise, you can’t convert it, and preserve it, too many times – just my opinion. A bit of laidback fun shouldn’t do no harm. Even wayback, August 27th, 2004, I converted (compressed) the C64 font to the 40 column mode of the “precious” TMS9918A. “Travelling back in time” is actually quite nice for me. Told my wife, and I think she begins to accept it. She can go and do her thing too (Topperware and stuff). Ain’t that nice ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Have you seen this webpage? http://electrickeet.com/line-itfont.html I like the extra tiles defined from 0-31 and 128-255 (although these are not as obvious as 32-127), and how the extra tiles are geared for making a UI of some sort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Have you seen this webpage? http://electrickeet....ine-itfont.html I like the extra tiles defined from 0-31 and 128-255 (although these are not as obvious as 32-127), and how the extra tiles are geared for making a UI of some sort. Most of the fonts on that website are free to be free but not really free. You can use them only if your program doesn't make money along with other terms. What are the fonts in this topic licensed as? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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