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I've got the C64 PETSCII font in binary. It's all fine and seems to be exactly what it should. Yet, there are problems. It is apparent now, from tests performed, that the way the characters are placed in the PETSCII font makes it useless in a terminal emulator. Yet, one may ask to have the letters positioned exactly where the C64 had them in the first place, for the specific purpose of having the fidelity of conversion and to be able to take C64 text and be able to display it within a terminal emulator that uses the said PETSCII font.
The PETSCII font comes in two templates; one is for lower case, and one is for upper case. Most of the characters from the upper case font is exactly the same as the lower case template, just placed at different areas. Also, characters 0 to 127 are plain, and from 128 to 255 they are reverse video. Both templates have the reverse video.
I've tought of bringing the two templates together and create one character set, cut a bit of the reverse video stuff, and reshuffle the characters, in a way that it would reflect the ASCII character position in a standard IBM font. Would you consider that still being a PETSCII font, but with standard IBM character order, or maybe a hybrid?
Your tought...
I've got the C64 PETSCII font in binary. It's all fine and seems to be exactly what it should. Yet, there are problems. It is apparent now, from tests performed, that the way the characters are placed in the PETSCII font makes it useless in a terminal emulator. Yet, one may ask to have the letters positioned exactly where the C64 had them in the first place, for the specific purpose of having the fidelity of conversion and to be able to take C64 text and be able to display it within a terminal emulator that uses the said PETSCII font.
The PETSCII font comes in two templates; one is for lower case, and one is for upper case. Most of the characters from the upper case font is exactly the same as the lower case template, just placed at different areas. Also, characters 0 to 127 are plain, and from 128 to 255 they are reverse video. Both templates have the reverse video.
I've tought of bringing the two templates together and create one character set, cut a bit of the reverse video stuff, and reshuffle the characters, in a way that it would reflect the ASCII character position in a standard IBM font. Would you consider that still being a PETSCII font, but with standard IBM character order, or maybe a hybrid?
Your tought...