Default Allegro Font

no-reply@allegro.cc (Felix-The-Ghost) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:17:47 +0000

Hey guys, I searched on the forums first but there were a lot of results about fonts in Allegro.

I'm looking for the font Allegro uses when there's no other font specified -- the pixel-ly one? Where would I find it? I wanted to be able to use it in Photoshop for graphics testing.

Or would that be weird with the set height?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Matthew Leverton) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:23:24 +0000

It's in src/font.c.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Felix-The-Ghost) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:31:56 +0000

Is there a font file I can install to use in Photoshop?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Matthew Leverton) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:28:47 +0000

It's a hardcoded, fixed bitmap font. It wouldn't even scale.

Just search the Googlewebs for any old school fixed width font if you want an equivalent.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Elias) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:59:08 +0000

From what I remember it's actually just the 8x8 CGA ROM/BIOS font. Shawn simply ripped it from his computer. Google images seems to confirm:

BIOS font: {"name":"olicga.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/9\/a\/9a4fda9c9f943aac7dc080c252b33a42.png","w":256,"h":128,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/9\/a\/9a4fda9c9f943aac7dc080c252b33a42"}

A4 font: {"name":"a4_font.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/2\/b\/2b18edf383ebca99589c900f3968c605.png","w":257,"h":321,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/2\/b\/2b18edf383ebca99589c900f3968c605"}

no-reply@allegro.cc (Felix-The-Ghost) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:31:12 +0000

I don't care if it scales, I just wanted to be able to type something and get a picture of that. I guess maybe I could just write a program for that. Or continue just taking screenshots :/ I just thought it'd be cool to be able to type it directly where I was editing it (Photoshop)

no-reply@allegro.cc (Surt) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:02:46 +0000

Or you could do as Matthew suggested and get results like this in a couple of minutes.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Arthur Kalliokoski) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:29:29 +0000

I'd bet money you could grab your own computer BIOS font in a few minutes with a DOS compiler, DOSBOX and Ralf Brown's info on memory locations.

[EDIT]

I'm gonna do that right now, time me for the revision time.

Aw, heck, I decided to use tcc and it wouldn't allow inline asm, and bc4 refused to run tlink so I gave up, anyway this should print it to the console, a redirect would work to save it to a file.

#SelectExpand
  1#include 
  2
  3char font[8*256]; /*  8 bytes, the width is bits per byte */
  4
  5int main(void)
  6{
int i,j,mask;
asm
{
  mov ax,1130h
  mov bh,3
  int 10h
  push ds
  push es
  push ds
  push es
  pop ds
  pop es
  mov di,offset font
  mov si,bp
  mov cx,256
  rep movsb
  pop es
  pop ds
}
printf("\nint font8x8 {\n");
for(i=0;i<256;i+=8)
{
   for(j=0;j<8;j++)
   {
    int k;
    k = i + j;
    printf("%d, ",font[k]);
   }
   printf("\n");
}
printf("\n};\n");
return 0;
 39}

no-reply@allegro.cc (l j) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:30:33 +0000

I don't think you are allowed to call interrupts on most modern systems.

edit: Nevermind, just tried in debug. On windows it seems to work.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Arthur Kalliokoski) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:31:42 +0000

That's why I specified using DOSBOX.

no-reply@allegro.cc (amber) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:44:39 +0000

Does DJGPP work in DOSBOX? You could always try that.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Arthur Kalliokoski) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:47:26 +0000

I didn't want to re-educate myself with mydosptr (?) and all that crap for a show off demo. I should have kept my mouth shut.

Maybe if I copy the bc4 stuff to a proper temporary directory and set the environment correctly it'd work. But I'm too lazy.

[EDIT]

Well I tried it anyway, and the exe prints some stuff and hangs, then crashes DOSBOX.
I tried redirecting to a file, but it's just 0 bytes long. I gotta go visit somebody now.