Custom fonts?

davegardnerisme

I need a tiny font - eg 3px by 5px. What’s the best way to achieve this? Is there any support for loading custom font definitions, or would there be benefit for adding a new system font?

If I wanted to achieve this on my own, what are my options? And finally, what about rendering text over scrollable background tile sets?

Any advice or pointers appreciated!

uli

Without firmware changes and using the text screen system, custom fonts are not currently possible.
Adding that functionality would be a relatively small effort, though, so I would consider it.

If you want to render text over a tiled background, I would suggest to use another background layer to do so. That way you can use any tile set you want and map it to ASCII codes using PLOT MAP. You can then render text using PLOT.

uli

BTW, 3x5 px tile BG layers are not something that I have actually tested, so thanks in advance for doing so ?