lyricalnanoha wrote:
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Michael J. Mahon wrote:BITBLT fonts in the 8-bit world are *very* different from GS/MAC proportional fonts. The data format is pretty complex, and you'll find that it's quite a trick to render them without a half-ton of code. ;-(Which is where the Toolkit would come into play, I presume.But right now I'm just trying to blit a CGA font to the screen, as that's relatively simple.
Right--a simple block font is no more complex than with any other Apple II. It's just the "GS fonts" that are hairy--and have arbitrary heights and widths. -michael ******** Note new website URL ******** NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."