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  Does anyone recognise the font used here... usenet@garethlock.com - 2019-10-27 02:25 -0700
    Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2019-10-27 09:59 +0000
      Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... usenet@garethlock.com - 2019-10-27 05:52 -0700
        Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-10-27 16:54 +0000
          Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... usenet@garethlock.com - 2019-10-27 10:48 -0700
            Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-10-28 01:04 +0000
              Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... usenet@garethlock.com - 2019-10-28 02:26 -0700
            Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2019-10-28 09:27 +0000
              Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... usenet@garethlock.com - 2019-11-10 15:12 -0800
                Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... usenet@garethlock.com - 2019-11-16 23:33 -0800
                  Re: Does anyone recognise the font used here... usenet@garethlock.com - 2019-11-19 03:31 -0800

#5853 — Does anyone recognise the font used here...

In the process of revisiting a project I started in secondary school, shelved, then came back to in 1998. Some of you who were at Feltham yesterday would have seen me playing with this...

Anyway... Does anyone recognise the font used for the red text in the screendump in the following link...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qwmks3mb5i24ciy/IMG_3475.JPG?dl=0

For the re-write I've converted the original sprites from MODE 12 to MODE 28. This of course isn't perfect and leaves a rather "blocky" lo-res look and feel. These graphics are dated back to at least the 1998 version. I have a feeling some of them are from the original secondary school attempt. 

Anyway I want to try and re-create these in MODE 28 and lose all the "blockiness", but can't remember what font I used 20+ years ago!!

I seem to recall that I used an Acorn outline font with !Snippet, I think to create the images back in the day.

Would appreciate all the help I can get...

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#5854

In article <fd3d0fbd-d40a-4f17-8356-04c9a61521cd@googlegroups.com>,
   <usenet@garethlock.com> wrote:
> In the process of revisiting a project I started in secondary school, shelved, then came back to in 1998. Some of you who were at Feltham yesterday would have seen me playing with this...

> Anyway... Does anyone recognise the font used for the red text in the screendump in the following link...

> https://www.dropbox.com/s/qwmks3mb5i24ciy/IMG_3475.JPG?dl=0

Had a look, but can't help with the font, alas. Looks familiar but can't
tell.

I'm using this as a chance to make another point, though.

I'd recommend with URLs like the above setting the ending to 'dl=1'.

NetSurf with javascript off won't show anything with the url ending 'dl=0'.

Jim

-- 
Electronics  https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio  http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html
Audio Misc  http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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#5855

My bad... Using the Dropbox app on an iPhone to automatically generate the links... Copy and paste into the post, so missed it...

Jotter or Jumbo are two that ring bells, though I'm not sure whether it was for this or something else...

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#5856

usenet@garethlock.com wrote on 27 Oct:

> Jotter or Jumbo are two that ring bells, though I'm not sure whether it
> was for this or something else...

In my Fontdir Pro here, I have Jotter in a subdir that says it came with 
an A3010 or Riscstation that I had years ago.  And Jumbo is in my dir 
"unknown" (referring to source).  Anyway they don't look like your screen.

The capital "M" in your word "Medium" looks distinctively fat and rounded.  
I had a skim through everything else in my Fontdir Pro list, but couldn't 
find a match, but I looked only at font names, not at full alphabet for 
each.

However, if you did this project on a BBC Micro, how much choice of font 
existed?


-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk
>> "From" address is genuine but will change.  Website has current one.

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#5857

Quizzics appeared on a Beeb, but all in teletext with simple PRINT, INPUT console type responses and was never completed due to the fact that the Beeb's PSU took a dump on me half way through. I only really got started on an A310, so it was a RISC OS outline font, possibly as far back as RO2!

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#5860

usenet@garethlock.com wrote on 27 Oct:

> I only really got started on an A310, so it was a RISC OS outline font,
> possibly as far back as RO2!

Just to narrow the field of enquiry a bit, did you ever buy any fonts? Or 
if yours come from PD sources, do you remember which sources they might 
have been?


-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk
>> "From" address is genuine but will change.  Website has current one.

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#5862

I only remember that they came from secondary school... Possibly an early version of Artisan maybe.

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#5863

In article <0067d4d8-0abf-4ad7-ba80-5abe0036989a@googlegroups.com>,
   <usenet@garethlock.com> wrote:
> Quizzics appeared on a Beeb, but all in teletext with simple PRINT,
> INPUT console type responses and was never completed due to the fact
> that the Beeb's PSU took a dump on me half way through. I only really
> got started on an A310, so it was a RISC OS outline font, possibly as
> far back as RO2!

I used the 'NTQ' font system on early machines. Gave good printout at the
time, but a PITA now to make sense of when I read ancient files!

Jim

-- 
Electronics  https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio  http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html
Audio Misc  http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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#5864

Jotter rings bells... What one has to remember is a lot of the blockiness was down to them being done as a lo-res MODE 12 sprite. Detail was lost in the conversion process. I wish I remembered what the heck the font was though. Then I could now re-do it all directly in MODE 28.

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#5885

Found something similar on a Font Emporium CD I picked up at the ROUGOL show. Called "Chalk" it's a close enough fit. Will be using this for the time being, unless I get any further pointers here.

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#5896

Update:: We now look like this...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zuoz04r5rdhg34c/IMG_3563.JPG?dl=1

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