X-Received: by 10.182.126.228 with SMTP id nb4mr53191436obb.19.1448824101146; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:08:21 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.20.162 with SMTP id o2mr227291ige.7.1448824101109; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:08:21 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!mv3no5704729igc.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni14438igq.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no7281410igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:08:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <956058d6-faf9-4ed4-9b0d-d2b3abda09cb@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=142.165.85.57; posting-account=U4TNXwoAAABP4nIJHynAJZ69O_f3LY2g NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.165.85.57 References: <956058d6-faf9-4ed4-9b0d-d2b3abda09cb@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Plotting Text Characters on Hi-Res Graphics Screen From: gids.rs@sasktel.net Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:08:21 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2.programmer:1992 On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 12:14:34 PM UTC-6, Mark Lemmert wrote: > On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 10:43:31 AM UTC-6, qkumba wrote: > > You'll need to draw the entire character yourself, using font data that= you define, point by point, line by line. There was another thread about = this recently, but I don't have the title in front of me to point you there= . >=20 > Thanks for your reply! >=20 > I figured that was the worst case scenario. Doable, but wanted to make su= re I wasn't reinventing the wheel. >=20 > The impression I got from the posts in this forum in the 1990s was that o= ther people did develop the shape tables for custom fonts, but the specific= data be lost to history. >=20 > If anyone has any idea where to get such data, I'd be very grateful. If I= end up creating shape tables myself, I'll post the info in this thread. If you do a search in groups.google.com, you will find that this question i= s verging on over-kill. All your questions are answered in other threads. The best way to find the= m is to do a search for "hi res character graphics" in groups.google.com. = Pretty much anything you do on an Apple computer IS re-inventing the wheel. Here is a start. This thread lists 3 different hi-res character generators= . And a couple of font editors are listed as well. The main one most program= mers use is, the Apple Toolkit HRCG (Hi-res character generator) that inclu= des about 20 defined fonts. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=3Den&fromgroups=3D#!searchin/comp.sys.a= pple2.programmer/character$20hi$20res/comp.sys.apple2.programmer/ZL9lL8WSJR= I/sMaBpdmqINEJ If you are looking more to understand how fonts are displayed on the hires = screen, and not just displaying them, then you will need to read up on how = the hires screen is laid out and how it displays images. There are lots of= good graphics books published in this area that are online. Your best sources for documents, programming, utilities and games is Asimov= . This link has a couple of others including the Apple II Documentation Pr= oject and Asimov. http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ Happy reading. :)