oooooooo. I really really like this webpage :) full of interesting things. The click-to-change background FTW. (Is... are some of the bitmaps from DESQView/X?)
Thanks so much for the Apple fonts, I've been meaning to poke the Alto source for ages!!
Hmm. This idea I've had for a while may interest you, and you may have more success with it than I have: I want to get the fonts off a Psion MC400. https://sites.google.com/view/psionmc400
(I don't have one.) I found whiffs of conversation about ROM dumping one somewhere, but nothing substantive. I'm not sure how the author of that page obtained their screenshots, but if it's possible to convince the UI to display every possible char from every possible font (telnet, anybody? :D) it seems the process wouldn't be too hard.
The chances are if I pipe up in a bunch of retrocomputing forums someone will probably turn out to have one or two, but all my assistance would be remote unless there was a unit in Australia (I wouldn't want to risk mailing one here and back).
Wow, that was fast! I had no idea they were XPMs, but that makes sense. (I think my favorites are SHADES{1,2}.)
I'll keep an eye out for interesting things happening with the MC400 in the future :) FWIW a ROM dump would probably let MAME start headscratching their way through it, and I'd love to plau with the UI (it looks really unique), but dumping just the fonts is a very workable start.
(I forgot to mention that that webpage has the images fractionally enlarged for some reason, making them blurry - opening them in a new tab makes them pixel-perfect.)
Thanks so much for the Apple fonts, I've been meaning to poke the Alto source for ages!!
Hmm. This idea I've had for a while may interest you, and you may have more success with it than I have: I want to get the fonts off a Psion MC400. https://sites.google.com/view/psionmc400
(I don't have one.) I found whiffs of conversation about ROM dumping one somewhere, but nothing substantive. I'm not sure how the author of that page obtained their screenshots, but if it's possible to convince the UI to display every possible char from every possible font (telnet, anybody? :D) it seems the process wouldn't be too hard.
The chances are if I pipe up in a bunch of retrocomputing forums someone will probably turn out to have one or two, but all my assistance would be remote unless there was a unit in Australia (I wouldn't want to risk mailing one here and back).