DOS ain't dead

Font editor Fontana - finaly released! (Announce)

posted by alexfru, USA, 09.06.2025, 07:01

> Fontána (or Fontana) is a bitmap font editor designed for the DOS

I've played with it briefly. Here are some findings:
1. it should be able to use a smaller screen resolution, e.g. 640x480
(seems like it's using 800x600?); when I run in in DOSBox-X, it's too
small (my screen is 1920x1080), but if I enable 2x scaling, the
top part ("menu") doesn't fit on the screen
2. it would be nice for it to be able to load bitmap fonts that
have fewer or more than 256 characters; for example, I need a
512-char font, in which I can fit enough chars for many languages,
(btw, EGA and VGA support 512-char text modes) but I couldn't
load such a 512-char bitmap font correctly, Fontána treated
512 8x8 chars as 256 8x16 chars, loading every two chars into
one single-char cell
...

Complete thread:

• Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - Laaca, 08.06.2025, 02:00 (Announce)
  • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - alexfru, 09.06.2025, 07:00
  • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - alexfru, 09.06.2025, 07:01
    • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - alexfru, 09.06.2025, 07:02
      • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - alexfru, 09.06.2025, 07:03
        • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - alexfru, 09.06.2025, 07:05
    • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - Laaca, 09.06.2025, 12:32
      • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - alexfru, 10.06.2025, 05:51
  • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - SuperIlu, 09.06.2025, 16:14
    • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - Laaca, 09.06.2025, 22:00
      • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - SuperIlu, 09.06.2025, 22:26
        • Font editor Fontana - finaly released! - Laaca, 09.06.2025, 22:52