Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs

Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by Someone on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:18AM (#23167688)

You have to give Commodore (or whoever designed that font) some slack.

VGA (in typically used character modes) had more bits per character, and its fonts didn’t have to be designed to be legible when displayed on a television set (screen not designed for text display, and signal converted to antenna signal and back)

Also, are you sure about that “round dot”? https://github.com/spacerace/romfont/blob/master/font-images... doesn’t show it, and any non-squareness would require a width of at least 3 pixels (more likely 4) to draw.

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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by UI_at_80x24 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:30AM (#23167840)

I guess I was wrong about the dot. But I also remember the taper on the exclamation mark being finer and less blocky. Obviously I remember through rose coloured glasses. Wolfenstien3D didn't look as bad as modern screenshots show either! =)

I don't doubt the C64 designers did the best with what they could; but I was absolutely impressed with how good the "!" looked on that VGA screen.

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