BESCII the ASCII font for Basic Engine

Dmian

uli Perfect! I'll use that as a reference. Thanks.

Dmian

uli New version of Bescii! (v1.2)

I mapped all the PUA characters to the PETSCII reference. Both your mappings and Tamakichi-san's mappings should be there (I checked, but if you see something missing, let me know.)

I also mapped the Amstrad characters you have mapped to 0x20 to the following code points:

[0xef] = 0xefef, (rocket symbol)
[0xfc] = 0xeffc, (bomb symbol)
[0xfd] = 0xeffd, (wtf? > cloud with lightning symbol)

I'll include the same mapping in the Amstrad font, but I'll update that later, since I want to expand it to support more languages.

And I modified a couple pixel art characters, and added a few more (they're remapped to f000-f067):

Pixel Art 3

Let me know what you think.

Dmian

Amstrad CPC 464 font updated to v1.1:

http://damianvila.com/basicengine/cpc464.ttf

Includes all Mac Roman and Windows 1252 characters (Western European languages), and the non-unicode characters mapping mentioned before.
Edit: the uppercase Eszett is included, even though is not included in Mac Roman and Windows 1252.

uli

Alright, I have updated the CPC font and replaced C64 Pro Mono with BESCII. Excellent work, thanks a lot!

Dmian

uli Wonderful!
Let me know if you need anything else with any other font.

Dmian

I couldn't contain myself, and created yet another font: ATASCII, based on Atari ASCII.

ATASCII

The glyphs are taken mainly from the Atari 8-bit family charset, with some from the Atari ST line (for example, the Hebrew glyphs and special chars), and a few modifications when the ST glyphs conflicted with the original glyphs.
It has a very different flavour to PETSCII or Amstrad CPC 464 ASCII, since capital letters are smaller.

You can get it here: https://damianvila.com/atascii/atascii.ttf

I'm starting to publish all these on my GitHub:

https://github.com/damianvila/font-bescii
https://github.com/damianvila/font-cpc464

When ready, this one will be at: https://github.com/damianvila/font-atascii (I still need to create the description and demo page).

I hope you like it.

guidol

Dmian
I like the atascii font more than the other BASIC Engine fonts (maybe because my second computer in the 80s was a ATARI 600XL 😉 )
Is there any way to make the atascii-Font the default font at bootup?
Because it isnt one of the 4 default loaded font.
@uli there isnt anything like a "AUTOEXEC.BAT" for the BASIC-Engine?
Or can this be done in the config.ini?
For now I have to
CHDIR "/sys/fonts"
FONT LOAD "atascii.ttf"
FONT "atascii" SIZE 8,8

BTW: Why cant I FONT LOAD "/sys/fonts/atascii.ttf" ?
Gives me a Sytax error (expected numeric expression"

uli

Nice!

Since you seem to be on a roll, could I be so bold as to request a 6x8 font? The HP 100 LX 6x8 font (which I got from https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/?2#hp) is quite nice, maybe it could be extended with Kana and whatever else is missing.

The original BE had a 6x8 font with Katakana (https://github.com/uli/basicengine-firmware/blob/master/libraries/TTVoutfonts/font6x8tt.cpp), but I have removed it because it doesn't have a TTF version. Also, the Latin part is highly unattractive...

[There is also a Japanese 6x8 with Kanji(!) at https://littlelimit.net/k6x8.htm, but I cannot open the TTF version of that in either Engine BASIC or fontforge; I don't know what's going on there. Either way, the author helpfully points out: "実用性極めて低し。" ("Very low practicality."). 😆 So I don't know if that helps with anything, maybe the Kana are usable.]

Dmian

uli No problem! I was planning on doing a 6x8, since I know you prefer that. 😉
I'll try to make it as complete as possible, though kana in a 6x8 is really challenging, especially with the modifiers.

(As a note: most kana or kanji pixel fonts I see are at least 12px tall. C64 is one of the few 8x8 one's out there).

Edit: I just checked that 6x8 kanji... it's simply useless, as expected. You get a hint of the character, but need a lot of imagination to find out which one it is. 😛 The kana is useful. 👍️

Dmian

uli Ok, here you have a first version. I called the font "Lexis" (for the "LX" in "100LX", which, by the way, comes from "Lotus eXpandable"):

https://damianvila.com/lexis/lexis.ttf

These are the included characters:

Lexis chars

They include all Mac Roman and Windows-1252 characters (for Western European Languages), Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek (classic), Hiragana and Katakana (taken, from the 6x8 font you linked, I didn't want to take chances here, and prefer using something done by a Japanese person), all the included extra characters in the original font.

Let me know what you think, or if you need anything else/different.

uli

It's in. Another excellent job, thanks a lot.

Dmian

All fonts published on GitHub, in their respective repositories:

https://github.com/damianvila/font-bescii
https://github.com/damianvila/font-cpc464
https://github.com/damianvila/font-atascii
https://github.com/damianvila/font-lexis

Enjoy!

painintheworld

Dmian Thank you for the fonts, especially the ATASCII font!

uli

guidol @uli there isnt anything like a "AUTOEXEC.BAT" for the BASIC-Engine?

Yes, there is, and it's called -- wait for it -- AUTOEXEC.BAS. 😀

guidol BTW: Why cant I FONT LOAD "/sys/fonts/atascii.ttf" ?
Gives me a Sytax error (expected numeric expression"

Because it's LOAD FONT, not FONT LOAD.

guidol

uli
AUTOEXEC.BAS did work fine 😉

The font loading was my fault 🙁
because of "FONT "atascii" SIZE 8,8
I had in my head that the FONT keywork should also as the first in the other command 🙂
The right order of command and it did work with the full path.

Is the AUTOEXEC.BAS documented? Hadnt read it 🙁
BTW: where could I find the Z-Code-Interpreter which is also mention on the webpage for the NG version?

uli

guidol Is the AUTOEXEC.BAS documented? Hadnt read it

Not sure. Lots of things are not properly documented... :-/ The reference manual is pretty much limited to BASIC commands and doesn't contain much information on how to use the system. Feel free to write a user manual. 🙂

guidol where could I find the Z-Code-Interpreter which is also mention on the webpage for the NG version?

HELP XYZZY. Moving that to a module and replacing it with a more competent interpreter is also on some TODO list somewhere...

Dmian

I remembered this thread existed, lol!

Well, Bescii updated to v2.

I included a special nod to playing cards... see if you guys can tell what it is 😄

(Pretty sure Ulrich knows what these are) 😉

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