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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

It was quite a bit lower in Level II, and I expanded it to 224 characters in NitrOS9, starting with version 2.0. 

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> On May 12, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> 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?
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Gault"
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
> 5:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?
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>> K. Pruitt
> wrote:
>>> Is there a font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?
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>>> A large portion
> of the standard font set seems to be empty.
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>> 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.
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>> It is simple enough to create a
> stack of fcb statements that describe a 
>> character.
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>> chr00    fcb  
> %00111000
>>         fcb   %01000100
>>         fcb   %01000000
>>         fcb  
> %01000000
>>         fcb   %01000000
>>         fcb   %01000100
>>         fcb  
> %00111000
>>         fcb   %00010000
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> Thanks Robert.  I didn't realize
> that NitrOS9 built its own font set from a 
> source file.
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> I can see now why I
> can only access 128 characters with the rest appearing 
> to be blank.
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> 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.
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> Is 128 characters the limit per buffer?
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