University font from GEOS for the Commodore 64. This was one of the default fonts included with GEOS and GeoWrite. I think it's based on one of Susan Kare's Mac fonts, can't remember which one. Elegant and may even work its way back into regular use for me...
Well, it's been a while because I've run out of fonts I want to convert/build. This one is LeConte from GEOS on the Commodore 64. It is pretty much a clone of Susan Kare's Chicago for the Apple systems, so you can use it as a pixelly Apple font in your works.
Wouldn't have minded redoing this with curves, but decided on going with full retro pixelled corners, as that's my main schtick.
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Many of us asked that back in the 1980s as we learned our international geography through a computer game. If you played it on the Commodore 64, this is the font used on the computer readouts, and yes it was proportionally spaced! Which would be why it wasn't resource-ripped before. I had enough screen shots to work with, then worked out what the missing punctuation marks might look like.
Visitors is taken from 'V' - The Video Game, based on the 'V' TV series of the early 1980s. Yeah, the one with the lizard people infiltrating humanity, that's it. I put in some angle parts because I didn't want the M and W to look like deformed Hs. Might just add extra "columns" in the glyphs to keep it pixellised. This is the whole character set, plus a few extra characters to build your own pulse line. Have fun
C64 character set for Gauntlet and The Deeper Dungeons (DD) games. Found a few odd characters that don't get used in the game, and others only used in DD for when the player's picked up a hidden potion (e.g. extra armour, extra shot strength).
ROUND 1... FIGHT!
I call this one CPS-1 Fighter because it's not just a Street Fighter font, and it's a pretty generic one. Capcom used this in their arcade games on the CPS-1 platform, in particular Final Fight and Street Fighter II.
For full effect, use this in PowerPoint, give it a gradient fill and a dull olive-gray shadow.
Character set from Impossible Mission loading screen on the Commodore 64. Original contained glyphs for A-Z capitals and digits 1984 only.
Have used some of the angular blocks to create smoother characters, while using the original pixelled versions for lower case. This could do with some extra work to improve it, if anyone else wants to have a go then feel free to clone it :)
This is a cloneThis is some random set labelled "BX_1" from Peter Kofler's web site. I don't know what game or software it's from. I just remember I made a bitmap font of this years ago with "Fony". Now it's a TrueType. Do with it as you will :)
Block font from The Print Shop by Broderbund Software.
Using VICE, I used Print Shop's Screen Magic option with every character in the set to generate a screen dump. I like Block because it's got the Western feel but isn't as condensed as Playbill.
LED lettering used by PTV (Public Transport Victoria) on the SmartBus boards for "how long until the next bus" information. I ride the bus to work each day, so these are pretty familiar, but I still had to guess some of them. I've left out some glyphs where they're just not useful (e.g. comma or quotation marks).
Inspired by a post on Margaret Shepherd's blog. "Stiffen" is the name she gave it, and it's built with a 30-degree tilt on the pen.
"This completely rectilinear alphabet conveys a strong, heavy, almost machine-made effect."
No caps but I can't see why I couldn't add caps later.
Orient, from The Print Shop Companion for the Commodore 64 by Broderbund Software.
I never got to use Orient - my copy of PS Companion had two bad files, the fonts Orient and Deco (which were my two favourites from the samples in the manual! Go figure). Whilst many Asian-style fonts exist, they weren't as wide as this one. Orient is much more... inelegant.
Characters are all that were in Print Shop... if anything I should fix the pairs kerning.
Angle font from The Print Shop Companion.
This was a tricky one. Going pixel for pixel from C64 screen grabs would have made this thing huge - it could have been done but I didn't want to do a major project here. I ended up eyeballing the letters and doing it freehand, roughly 5x9 but a few characters are 6x9. This also let me work more with the angled pieces (no pun intended) in Fontstruct as I want to learn them better.
As you may have guessed, this is an unshadowed version of Pioneer. Print Shop's fonts were more often than not replicas of commercial fonts. I wasn't able to locate a solid Pioneer so this will do for now - plus it only has a descender on the Q. Only characters in the Print Shop font have been produced.
Galacto Honoris!
This font appeared in Cosmic Cruiser by Imagine Software on the Commodore 64. It hasn't got much in the way of glyphs - I'm going to progressively work on this.
Have tried making the capitals more curvy to match some of the original game's intent (a rotating space station featured heavily) but it fell down on the A, D, K, V and Y (and almost the X). Big problem is trying to make a curve take up 2x2 when working in 1x1, the right core bricks don't exist. You can make a 1x1 brick based on a 2x2 design, but you can't make a 2x2 brick based on a 1x1 design.
Font used in 10th Frame (and the Leaderboard Golf series) for the Commodore 64 by Access Software. I used 10th Frame's smaller lettering for lower case, and the box score numbers for an alternate set of digits (use Shift 1-8, [ and ] for these). The letters used shading (grey pixels next to the black ones) so I've tried to mock that.
I had a sheet of Shinobi's font, nobody had done it yet, now it's here! All characters are what appeared on the sheet - no custom glyphs (yet). I may get around to adding a question mark. Get your black ninja gear on and download now.