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Damien Guard

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2023 Day 4

GEOS64

The GEOS desktop UI from Berkley Systems in 1986 is an incredible feat - achieving what took the Mac a 16-bit processor and over twice the memory.

The 64's resolution required carefully designed typography and "BSW" system fonts were proportionally rendered to great effect.

Included here are bold and non-bold as well as the tiny desktop icon font as a bonus!

download.damieng.com/fonts/con

If you want a quick play with GEOS on the 64 head to commodore.software/downloads/d and download the D81 disk image then fire up VICE and set drive 8 to 1581 and autoboot it.

You'll also need to set the joystick 1 port options to map to something in order to move the mouse.

commodore.softwareCommodore Software - GEOS 64 v2.0 (1581 Floppy Image)GEOS is a graphical operating system for the Commodore 64.  Google and Wiki can give you much more information.  This archive contains a 1581 ...

@cenbe Yes, the sample PDF link on that page is great, so many interesting GEOS fonts although many of them way too big to fit in 8x8s!

@damieng They're not meant to fit in 8x8. They're proportional fonts.

@cenbe Being proportional does not preclude fitting in an 8x8 container...

My advent calendar all fits in 8x8s.

@damieng Yes, but you had to alter the font to do that by adding blank pixels. It's no longer BSW9.

@damieng Hmm, these look like they'd be really handy for 8x8 LED matrix displays. Nice!

@damieng @amigalove Nice idea!! I once made a retro font as well from and old computer called Z1013. It was a machine you had to build up yourself and was produced in the former GDR. fontstruct.com/fontstructions/

fontstruct.com · Z1013A Fontstruction designed by Ravetracer