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28 New Amiga Fonts.
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This is the NEW 2.0 Version, dated 07/19/86. The previously
missing large fonts are now included (sorry for the delay),
and several bugs have been corrected. Also I have added an
automatic installation script for your convenience.
This file is named NEWFONTS.DOC. It is file number 1 of 59.
It describes and documents, 15 large (14x16 Pixels) and 13 small
(7x8 Pixels) new fonts for the Amiga. These fonts are in the
standard format dictated by the ROM Kernal Manual. As such,
they are fully compatible with Deluxe Paint, Notepad and
any other program which makes use of the Amiga font capabilities.
The fonts were converted to the Amiga from other microcomputers
that I have owned over the years. The original machines
did not support proportional spacing, kerning, etc. as the
Amiga does. Therefore ALL letters are the same width. What
this means is that a narrow letter such as 'I' will take up
just as many horizontal pixels as wide letters, such as
'M' or 'W'. In many cases this won't look too bad, but
certain letter combinations may look a little funny. (For
example, the word 'WIMP'.
File number 2 (of 59) is named NEWFONTS.PIC. It is an IFF
(DPaint or Slide Show format) picture that illustrates
samples of all 28 new fonts. Look at this one first if
you want to get your mouth watering!!!
File number 3 (of 59) is an installation script. This
will considerably ease the pain of getting the fonts onto a
disk in a useable form. However, if you are a glutton for
punishment I have described manual installation also.
Files 4 thru 59 are the actual fonts themselves. Each font
requires two files. They are named as follows:
FONTxxA
FONTxxB
where xx is a numeric index between 01 and 28. In a table
below I have equated these index numbers with the font
names as shown in NEWFONTS.PIC.
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MANUAL INSTALLATION
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The 'A' file will need to be renamed to xxxxxxx.font
in the fonts directory on your workbench diskette.
Similarly, the 'B' file will have to be renamed to
xxxxxxx/8 (or xxxxxxx/16) also in the fonts directory.
In the latter case, xxxxxxx is the name of a directory
you have created in the fonts directory of your workbench
diskette. In both cases, xxxxxxx will be replaced by the
actual name of the respective font. For example,
outline.font & outline/8 (or outline/16). The numbers 8
and 16 become the actual file name for the font file, 8
being used for the small fonts and 16 being used for the
large ones. To further clarify what may not be clear by
now let me offer the following example:
Using the first small font as an example, you must
first UN-ARC the two font files, FONT01A and
FONT01B. Then from CLI do the following commands.
MAKEDIR DF0:LARGE ** Do only once **
MAKEDIR DF0:SMALL ** Do only once **
** See Note Below **
MAKEDIR DF0:SMALL/BYTE
RENAME(or COPY) FONT01A to DF0:SMALL/BYTE.FONT
RENAME(or COPY) FONT01B to DF0:SMALL/BYTE/8
Following is a list of the index numbers that I have used
and the names of the fonts that go with them. Numbers 01
thru 13 are the small fonts and numbers 14 thru 28 are the
large fonts.
INDEX # FONT NAME SIZE
------- --------- ----
01 BYTE 8
02 COLOSSAL 8
03 COUNT 8
04 FLOW 8
05 GOTHIC 8
06 OUTLINE 8
07 PINOCCHIO 8
08 PUDGY 8
09 ROMAN 8
10 SHADOW 8
11 SKINNY 8
12 SLANT 8
13 STOP 8
14 APPLE 16
15 ASTRA 16
16 BOLDTYPE 16
17 BROADWAY 16
18 COUNTDOWN 16
19 CYBER 16
20 EXPANDED 16
21 FRANKFURTER 16
22 NINETY'S 16
23 OUTLINE 16
24 PINBALL 16
25 ROMAN 16
26 SCRIPT 16
27 SLOPE 16
28 TYPEWRITER 16
NOTE:
I suggest that rather than keeping all 28 fonts in one
directory(usually named FONTS) that you put all of
the large ones in a directory called LARGE(or big)
and the small ones in a directory called SMALL(or little).
The reason for this is that not all programs will handle
a pull-down menu item with 28 entries in it. I haven't
tried Deluxe Paint, but that many entries causes Notepad
to freak-out. Anyhow, if you do split them you will have
to assign fonts to the proper directory before starting-up
DPaint or whatever program will be using the fonts. You
can do this from CLI with the following command:
1. ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:LARGE or...
2. ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:SMALL
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AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION
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1. Create a NEW Work Bench disk by making a copy of your
ORIGINAL Amiga Work Bench disk.
2. Copy all of the files that begin with the letters 'FONT'
onto the new WB disk that you created in step 1. Do NOT
put them into any directory or sub-directory.
3. Also copy the installation script onto the same WB disk.
4. Boot your Amiga from the disk just created and get into
the CLI. Be sure your directory is set to df0:
5. execute InstallFonts
6. Sit back and relax for a couple of minutes. When the
installation script completes, there will be two
additional font directories called 'large' and 'small'
on your new WB disk. To use any of the new fonts from
Dpaint, Note Pad, etc., simply assign the fonts device
to the correct directory BEFORE starting the program.
E.G. ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:large or.....
ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:small
You can return to the default (albeit somewhat less
exciting fonts) at any time by re-assigning as follows:
ASSIGN FONTS: DF0:fonts
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Even though I did not convert these fonts with proportional
spacing, kerning, etc., these features could still be added
by an enterprising individual who was willing to spend the
time. To do this though, he would need the assembler sources,
an assembler and a knowledge of how Amiga fonts are built.
The last two items are available from your local Amiga
dealer and the ROM Kernal Manual, respectively. The first
may be obtained by leaving a message to me on my home board.
Bill Fischer
Casa mi Amiga BBS
Jacksonville, FL
(904) 733-4515 (300 or 1200 baud)
Several of the large fonts do not have lower case. In those
cases the upper case letters are repeated for lower case keys.
With one large font (script), the opposite is true; there are
no capital letters, only lower case. And finally, there may
occasionally be a couple of characters missing in about six
of the large fonts. In most cases this will be the @ character
and/or all the characters above hexadecimal 7A (lower case 'z').
When one of these missing characters is typed from the keyboard,
it will be replaced on the screen by a SPACE.