[Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?

[Bill Pierce]

Kelly, IIRC, OS9 will support a full 256 char font set. Some are only accessable by certain codes, but I'm pretty sure the support is there. 256 would most likely be the limit though.
 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, May 12, 2015 4:11 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault"
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
5:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?


> K. Pruitt
wrote:
>> Is there a font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?
>>
>> A large portion
of the standard font set seems to be empty.
>>
>
> Have you considered bypassing
a font editor and just using data files 
> similar to those in the Sourceforge
project? Look at 
> level2\sys\stdfonts.asm.
>
> It is simple enough to create a
stack of fcb statements that describe a 
> character.
>
> chr00    fcb  
%00111000
>          fcb   %01000100
>          fcb   %01000000
>          fcb  
%01000000
>          fcb   %01000000
>          fcb   %01000100
>          fcb  
%00111000
>          fcb   %00010000
>
>
> -- 

Thanks Robert.  I didn't realize
that NitrOS9 built its own font set from a 
source file.

I can see now why I
can only access 128 characters with the rest appearing 
to be blank.

It is all
that is defined in the 8x8 set and then it changes to a different 
set of 6x8
characters mapped to buffer 2.

Is 128 characters the limit per buffer?






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