The fonts seen with previous laptop methods similar to these from Apple and Commodore, in addition to Microsoft Home windows 3.1 and older, type an integral a part of our interplay with these methods. Today such bitmap fonts are a rarity, with scalable vector-based fonts having taken their place on modern-day methods. This sadly additionally implies that these fonts are at main danger of being misplaced to the sands of time. That is the place [Rob Hagemans] seeks to preserve an archive of such bitmap fonts, starting from Acorn to MSX to Home windows.

Many of those fonts are extracted from character ROMs, with a preview of a few of these fonts obtainable by way of the Monobit viewer. The fonts themselves are made obtainable in YAFF format, which is a text-based format that may be transformed again to a binary format utilizing the Monobit device. In the event you ever needed to make use of certainly one of these previous bitmap fonts in a challenge, this would appear to supply a treasure trove of choices. The hoard of bitmap fonts may be the proper match on your subsequent graphic LCD challenge.

(Through [SuperIlu] on Mastodon)