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Started by ||C|-|E||, 12:04, 02 December 15

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Hi guys!  :)

I am trying to find nice fonts for CP/M because I would like to change the default one in the adventure we are making. However, after searching here and there for quite a lot, I am still struggling to find fonts in a format that is readable by Setfont. I wonder if somebody has experience with this and can give me a hand  :) . The game is in Mode 1 and I would like to find a font similar to the Speccy one. Something that is a bit more spaced than the original Mode 1 font.

Thank you!  :D

FloppySoftware

AFAIK the PCW font is the same as the CPC one: 8x8 pixels, 8 bytes each character.

Anyway, there are some PCW fonts available on the net (search for LetaFont), and I have designed a couple for my own programs (Samaruc GUI, etc.).

I don't know what format has Setfont.

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Thank you! It actually works! So, what I did was to download the LetaFont package and, although I cannot use it with the CPC, Setfont accepts the fonts that come with it. There are a bunch of them and some are actually really nice :).

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This tool seems to be very useful indeed! Thank you very much again! If not for the game, I will use it for sure for the little web page we plan to do for the adventure  :)

On the other hand, I put some font samples in the main post of the game. Do you have any particular preference? :)

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robcfg

I'm all for Font 2!


The other's don't fit the ambient of the game well.

GeoffB17

Hello all,


Just tried this, yes, some of the fonts are quite good.


In case anyone's interested, I've sorted out a font I had that I quite like, and also created a matching file pair for the normal PCW system font, so you can re-set the font back again!


NB - in the transfer process, the .COM files have been renamed as .CPM - I'm told than some people have had NASTY things happen to their PC when they've tried to run a CP/M .COM file.  I must be lucky, all I've ever got is a HUNG computer!!


Geoff

TFM

Quote from: ||C|-|E|| on 12:04, 02 December 15
Hi guys!  :)

I am trying to find nice fonts for CP/M because I would like to change the default one in the adventure we are making. However, after searching here and there for quite a lot, I am still struggling to find fonts in a format that is readable by Setfont. I wonder if somebody has experience with this and can give me a hand  :) . The game is in Mode 1 and I would like to find a font similar to the Speccy one. Something that is a bit more spaced than the original Mode 1 font.

Thank you!  :D


Hi! I got a setfont program with some fonts somewhere, but not at work here. I will either post here, or email me for it. Sorry - I'm at the wrong computer here.


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Thank you!  :D

ZbyniuR

It's look like betwen codes 32 and 127, only 5 characters in PCW font look different than in CPC. :)

10 SYMBOL AFTER 32:SYMBOL 39,48,48,48:SYMBOL 48,56,108,206,214,230,108,56:SYMBOL 79,124,198,198,198,198,198,124:SYMBOL 81,124,198,198,198,218,204,118:SYMBOL 104,224,96,124,102,102,102,230:PRINT" '0OQh <- now look like in PCW"
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TFM

Quote from: ZbyniuR on 17:15, 04 December 15
It's look like betwen codes 32 and 127, only 5 characters in PCW font look different than in CPC. :)

10 SYMBOL AFTER 32:SYMBOL 39,48,48,48:SYMBOL 48,56,108,206,214,230,108,56:SYMBOL 79,124,198,198,198,198,198,124:SYMBOL 81,124,198,198,198,218,204,118:SYMBOL 104,224,96,124,102,102,102,230:PRINT" '0OQh <- now look like in PCW"


Well, 32-127 are supposed to be ASCII codes. They should be identical.  :)
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AMSDOS

Quote from: GeoffB17 on 19:55, 03 December 15

NB - in the transfer process, the .COM files have been renamed as .CPM - I'm told than some people have had NASTY things happen to their PC when they've tried to run a CP/M .COM file.  I must be lucky, all I've ever got is a HUNG computer!!




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Quote from: AMSDOS on 21:51, 04 December 15


Advise them to forward their complaints to Bill Gates of Microsoft! We shouldn't have to be renaming our files because of them!  :o

They even copied the filetype of commands. Nice people.
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