Re: [MiNT] Conholio 0.7r

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> On 07/20/2010 11:45 AM, Peter Slegg wrote:
>
>>> I'm quite sure that I have this font (or atleast a very similar one) as a
>>> GDOS-font.
>>
>> I was thinking that if many unix apps use this system then it might
>> be useful to add the format to the vdi.
>
> Ok, I see. I don't know how wide spread this format is, but it would

any linux based console uses them, so there are thousands of font

also they are VGA screen fonts, which can be loaded into the video in VGA mode

This means it is possible to use them directly on the video card when
set to full screen (non-GEM/VDI) mode

Weather or not this is usable/practical on Atari based machines in
another question.

> I just had a quick look at the PSF format and it's pretty
> straight-forward. A conversion tool would be pretty simple, basically it
> needs to reorder the bitmaps and create the FNT header.

very simple. do you (Jo) have time to run up a command line tool?

Paul