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1. Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 10:01:15 JST Marcin Wichary

   What would you consider as the most recognizable bitmap fonts in tech history?

   I’m imagining stuff like:
   - the arcade/Atari font
   - Chicago (Mac, then iPod)
   - VCR/video equipment fonts
   - Minecraft font
   - IBM PC fonts (MDA, VGA, stuff like that)
   - perhaps System font from Windows 3.x
   - Commodore 64, just because of the sheer popularity of the machine

   What am I missing?

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   • Chris Espinosa (cdespinosa@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:39:44 JST Chris Espinosa

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     @mwichary

     A long overdue confession:

     The upper/lowercase font in the Hi-Res Character Generator routine for the Apple II (Contributed Software No. 3) came from the character generator chip of a Commodore PET, which was just a 2716-format ROM. The Apple II had an empty $D000-$D7FF socket that was pin-compatible. I pulled the chip from the PET, plugged it into the Apple II, wrote it to a disk file, and voila.