I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by gbraad » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:43 AM UTC

ianhanschen wrote: post #25

xtracto wrote: post #24

"my"

Yes, my collection that I put together over the years. Hence “my.”

Examples of use would also be nice, like referencing demos

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by ianhanschen » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 3:14 AM UTC

dpedu wrote: post #38

Converted them - what other formats exist for this sort of thing?

They are from other machines like Atari and Amiga so they were in formats like LBM/IFF.

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by herodoturtle » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 3:22 AM UTC

This is such a cool passion project, thanks for sharing your collection with us. Will bookmark this one for sure.

It's great to see remnants of the demoscene pop up like this from time to time. I'm sure there are many of us relative old-timers here that got their first taste of graphics programming thanks to those demoscene BBS tuts from back in the day (Denthor of Asphyxia anyone?).

Just the other day I was reminiscing with a fellow programmer on freenode about mode13th shenanigans and the all-nighters that ensued.

This HN post put a smile on my face. Cheers from South Africa!

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by ianhanschen » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 3:34 AM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #31

ianhanschen wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, my collection that I put together over the years. Hence “my.”

Did you create all these fonts? They are so so many.

No, people all over the demo scene did. All I have done is to collect them and share the collection so they are not lost to time.

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by ianhanschen » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 3:34 AM UTC

gbraad wrote: post #41

ianhanschen wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, my collection that I put together over the years. Hence “my.”

Examples of use would also be nice, like referencing demos

Good idea - you’re welcome to submit a pull request.

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by nullc » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 3:43 AM UTC

teddyh wrote: post #3

ianhanschen wrote: post #2

After seeing a few of the sites go down it seemed like a good idea to put it under source control. I don't claim rights to any of these works.

> I don't claim rights to any of these works. That’s not how copyright works.

Typefaces nor bitmap fonts are copyrightable.

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by racingmars » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 4:03 AM UTC

nullc wrote: post #46

teddyh wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't claim rights to any of these works. That’s not how copyright works.

Typefaces nor bitmap fonts are copyrightable.

I'd love to see a reference to US case law to substantiate this claim. I'm pretty sure if I bought a font from Adobe and posted it online, they'd take issue with it. Is the particular implementation of a font eligible for copyright but the "design" isn't if I copy it and make my own font that looks the same?

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by bemmu » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 4:31 AM UTC

herodoturtle wrote: post #43

This is such a cool passion project, thanks for sharing your collection with us. Will bookmark this one for sure. It's great to see remnants of the demoscene pop up like this from time to time. I'm sure there are many of us relative old-timers here that got their first taste of graphics programming thanks to those demoscene BBS tuts from back in the day (Denthor of Asphyxia anyone?). Just the other day I was reminisc…

    mov ax, 13h
    int 10h

The two most important lines of asm for any teen trying to emulate their demoscene heroes.

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by aidenn0 » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 4:50 AM UTC

Are these PNGs paletted? A lot of these fonts really shine when you cycle through ranges of colors in the pallets.

Re: I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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Post by pmayrgundter » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 5:10 AM UTC

neetdeth wrote: post #13

pmayrgundter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for posting! To turn this into a font for a sprite sheet would take some sort of mapping for each.. Autosegmentation seems maybe practical. Are the glyphs in any order? I just poked around and it doesn't seem so. Indexing them according to character code would be a fair amount of work by hand. Maybe a handwriting Neural Net? Hmm.. I have an old one somewhere

The few I've opened appear to cover a 60-character segment of the ASCII table from 0x20 to 0x5B in row major order with a fixed glyph size indicated in the file name.

There does seem to be consistency in groups with similar names, but e.g. from the first page, two of the same size with different ordering:

https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/32_32V1.png https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/32X32-F1.png

Still, it's a good point that there's some ordering. Maybe it's not so bad setting up an index by hand for each group.