26 Dec
2017
26 Dec
'17
3:52 p.m.
On Dec 26, 2017, at 2:22 PM, Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com> wrote:
Before putting everything together I also dumped the chargen ROM board?
Ah, yes ? I did this with my own VT52 last xmas break! I breadboarded a little scanner
for that task because my chargen ROM was not socketed, and I didn?t want to risk damaging
it by unsoldering it from the board:
http://fritzm.github.io/vt52.html <http://fritzm.github.io/vt52.html>
https://github.com/fritzm/vt52 <https://github.com/fritzm/vt52>
It?s a pretty cool and funky little font, and since I spent a lot of time in front of
VT52s back in the day it makes me nostalgic. I hope someday somebody with decent
font-smithing skills will use the data to make a usable console font; my experiments with
font creation tools were not a great success and I came to the conclusion that there is a
lot I don?t know about fonts which is necessary in order to make them render and scale
well and be generally usable on modern operating systems...
cheers,
?FritzM.