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Added Elan Enterprise and Videoton TVC official and user fonts #22

Closed SlashNetUA closed 1 year ago

SlashNetUA commented 1 year ago

Elan Enterprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_(computer) Videoton TVC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoton_TV-Computer

robhagemans commented 1 year ago

Thanks! Out of interest, you mentioned in the comments they were 'recreated', how did you create/extract them?

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Elan Enterprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_(computer) Videoton TVC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoton_TV-Computer

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https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts/pull/22 Commit Summary

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SlashNetUA commented 1 year ago

I did it using an ordinary text editor. At first I tried to convert the font from the edited screenshot from the emulator, but I couldn't get monobit to create characters 9 pixels high and above (it stubbornly generated characters 8 pixels high).

robhagemans commented 1 year ago

All done manually sounds like a lot of work! Which emulator did you use for the screenshot?

Apologies monobit documentation is still very sparse, there is a -cell-size option that should allow to set 9x8 character sizes when reading an image. Try monobit-convert --help -format=image for all the options (or check the source code at monobit/formats/image.py )

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SlashNetUA commented 1 year ago

All done manually sounds like a lot of work! Which emulator did you use for the screenshot?

Not so much. 🙂 I love pixel fonts, too. I started making them back on my Enterprise (since it was easy enough). Then when I got my IBM PC-compatible computer I made my first font for text mode (.fnt) with the hex editor. 🤪

Nowadays I sometimes help enthusiastic translators create Cyrillic versions of pixel fonts for old games.

To emulate Enterprise (and some other machines on the Z80 processor) I mostly use the multisystem emulator ep128emu (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ep128emu/).