Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!taronga!peter From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: test Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 02:46:26 GMT References: <4668@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Organization: A corner of our bedroom Lines: 22 Approved: by anyone who appreciates the Apple-II. > Wow! This reminds me of things! I also added lower case with `true' > decenders... made quite the difference. Reminds me of the font editor and text stuff I did on the Apple-II in Forth. Used the "hi-res" graphics to display the fonts, and even with the overhead of Forth it was quite fast... certainly faster then using the BIOS on an IBM-PC... which is in assembly on a much faster CPU. Of course you all know that the IBM-PC ROM BIOS is a hack in another sense. Anyway, to make the characters look nicer on a B&W monitor I used the half-pixel shift the Apple-II provides for the second set of colors to give the characters nice curved sides. The resulting font looked way nicer than anything Apple had. I also did Turtle Graphics in the same Forth, but it was really slow until Karl modified it to use CAT Graphics from BYTE magazine... back when BYTE was *really* the Small Systems Journal instead of Just Another Damned IBM-PC Rag. -- (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com) `-_-' 'U`