+davidcalgary29 Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 Can anyone advise what the official name of the 8-bit font is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 A couple of printing programs I have call it "STANDARD.FNT". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 Is there an official name for it other than "Standard"? If not, maybe we should come up with a name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 AFAIK all the literature of the time just referred to it as the Atari character set or the default character set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 I guess we wouldnt call it the ATASCII Character set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 Nope, Atascii was used to distinguish the character codes (which differed from the Ascii character codes). The characters' appearence was something else altogether. The characters' appearence was something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 Nope, Atascii was used to distinguish the character codes (which differed from the Ascii character codes). The characters' appearence was something else altogether. The characters' appearence was something else Surely you can't be serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 I am serious...and don't call me Shirley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 Nope, Atascii was used to distinguish the character codes (which differed from the Ascii character codes). The characters' appearence was something else altogether. The characters' appearence was something else Surely you can't be serious. Nukey Shay is entirely correct. The characters' appearance has nothing to do with ATASCII, other than being the defaul font for the Atari 8bits. You can actually change the character appearance, as was often done with games or programs using character graphics, but that does nothing to change the ATASCII codes. However, I think the font COULD be called ATASCII, as those characters were all the same throughout Atari's 8bit lineup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 26, 2003 Share Posted May 26, 2003 Close...Atari also had Microsoft Basic, which used that "font" but had nothing at all to do with Atascii...right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Nope, Atascii was used to distinguish the character codes (which differed from the Ascii character codes). The characters' appearence was something else altogether. The characters' appearence was something else Surely you can't be serious. Nukey Shay is entirely correct. The characters' appearance has nothing to do with ATASCII, other than being the defaul font for the Atari 8bits. You can actually change the character appearance, as was often done with games or programs using character graphics, but that does nothing to change the ATASCII codes. However, I think the font COULD be called ATASCII, as those characters were all the same throughout Atari's 8bit lineup. I should have put a at the end of my post. Since Nukey was quoting a line from Airplane!, I thought I would set-up another one, which he hit out of the park. Trouble is that on some of my jokes I don't like to put the in because it seems like a laugh track. Maybe if I had put it in quotes as he did? Only problem--I can't remember who said the line in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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