Need 8x12 Font
Kye
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I'm thinking of making a 8x12 font VGA (640 x 480 @ 60hz) display driver. I want to be able to get 80x40 characters on the screen using one cog. I plan to make the screen buffer small using only a single byte for each character. I also think I'll have a pixel locked mouse cursor and print cursor.
I believe I can do this all if I just modify my 40x30 tile driver vga object.
But, I need some font. Does anyone have the VGA_HI_RES txt in human readable form? I could use that. Or is there another more complete 8x12 font set that I can use. I would like to be able to have 256 characters available.
Thanks for your help,
I believe I can do this all if I just modify my 40x30 tile driver vga object.
But, I need some font. Does anyone have the VGA_HI_RES txt in human readable form? I could use that. Or is there another more complete 8x12 font set that I can use. I would like to be able to have 256 characters available.
Thanks for your help,
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Baggers tile converter might work for this too.
Yeah, it would be nice to have a Parallax font, with all the cool symbols. Need 512 chars for that, or make it 4 color. This one is pretty standard, found on all the PCs, since the DOS era. Nice box, UI chars in there too. There were "code pages" implemented with a few different sets. This is the common one, there were others. I couldn't find simple 1bpp images of them though. For such a common thing, it's funny that it took so much digging.
I edited the double quote character as it was always displaying a left quote. Now it is symmetrical so it does not matter. Fonts are at the bottom of this code: