— from the source code of an early (1975) time-shared system version of The Oregon Trail, as documented in On the Trail of the Oregon Trail.
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TYPE BANG: First Person Shooter, 1975 style
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Library Hand – Disjoint
LibHandDis — Based on scans of “Library Hand – Disjointâ€, described in Dana’s A Library Primer, with some modifications.Major changes from scan:
- As the scan only covered A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and ‘&’, I had to make the rest up.
- Many of the descenders had to be shortened to fit with modern typography conventions.
- Kerning is much tighter than Dana’s guidelines suggest.
(idea for this came via MetaFilter, This question of library handwriting is an exceedingly practical one)
Local copy: LibHandDis.zip.
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The punctuation is a farce, the kerning is ropey – but here’s my attempt at Dana’s Library Hand
Update: don’t use this terrible thing. Margo Burns has made an amazing version: Dana Library Hand.
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a font for the person you’re just dotty about
LoveMatrix is a lo-fi dot matrix font made of ♥♥♥s. It’s a seasonally-adjusted version of my mnicmp font.
Local copy: LoveMatrix.zip
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more geometry to colour in
Click on image to download as PDF based on the main repeating pattern from a Pierced Window Screen at The Metropolitan Museum of Art — particularly this image.
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mnicmp: the DECwriter lives again!
I just made and uploaded this to FontLibrary: mnicmp.This is meant more as an exercise in learning FontForge‘s programming back-end, and definitely showed me that FontForge is incredibly powerful. After the learning comes silliness, so I ended up turning the dots into something like:
I learned you really have to consider a dot-matrix font to be an array of points rather than a glyph, because otherwise you get the dots coming out the wrong sort of oval:
Blue font has been italicized as a whole, while the black dots were done properly You don’t want to know what it did to the stars …
Local archive: mnicmp.zip
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awaiting surgery
Seems I have two Macintosh PowerBook 180s: one has a dead colour screen but seems to boot fine, and the other (the one screenshotted above; yay ⌘+Shift+3 and enough room on the boot floppy …) has a lovely greyscale screen but a dead hard drive. I suspect we’re going to have to do a head transplant.And no, I’m not having ¼-century 68030+68882 wish fulfillment one bit …
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Apple II on Raspberry Pi
C’mon let’s all die of dysentery on the Oregon Trail! Update: You probably want to use https://github.com/linappleii/linapple instead of Linapple-Pie these days.
Building and installing the linapple-pie Apple IIe emulator is relatively easy on the Raspberry Pi:
sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev libzip-dev zlib1g-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev build-essential git git clone https://github.com/dabonetn/linapple-pie.git cd linapple-pie/src make sudo make install
This also works on an x86_64 Ubuntu machine. It does also install on a PocketCHIP (even if it takes a really long time) but I can’t get the display resolution to fit correctly.
