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Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:08 pm
by GCHarder
Font Manager for ZXPand with UDG Board. Contains over 500 fonts to play around with. See the enclosed text files in the DATA folder for more info.

Enjoy;

Greg

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:39 pm
by sirmorris
:shock:

Amazing work Greg!

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:50 pm
by Moggy
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus what Charlie said. :ugeek:


I shall have some fun with this. :twisted:

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:13 pm
by Andy Rea
Wowsers...

Absolutely fan-bloody-tastic...

Great amazing fabulous work...

Andy

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:09 am
by Fruitcake
The font collection is going to be a fantastic resource - Great work!

I've converted them all the fonts (excluding the ZX81 ones that happened to match those from my website ;)) into the XML format used by my Chroma Program Enhancement Creator utility. In doing this I noticed I had forgotten to define a couple of punctuation characters in the Sinclair font and so I've fixed these on my website.

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:58 pm
by Moggy
Just an observation that may affect SOME Xpand users depending on firmware used.

Some of the CHR files in the fonts folders have their attributes set to read only which in certain cases (Mine at least ) can cause the Xpand to jump into normal zeddy mode so that when it comes to loading that particular font the wavy lines tape loader comes into its own rather than the usual xpand card load.

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 9:26 pm
by Andy Rea
Moggy wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:58 pm Just an observation that may affect SOME Xpand users depending on firmware used.

Some of the CHR files in the fonts folders have their attributes set to read only which in certain cases (Mine at least ) can cause the Xpand to jump into normal zeddy mode so that when it comes to loading that particular font the wavy lines tape loader comes into its own rather than the usual xpand card load.
Yes it's rather annoying, another issue with files been marked read only makes the SAVE ">filename" command fail you'd think that the mighty SirMorris would put aside his work problems, forget about family matters, stop messing around with none zx81 computers ( special exception for the broken speccy cuz that's a handsome bodge ) and sort this issues out.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

well any time between now and 2020 should be fine :)

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:40 pm
by Moggy
Totally agree Andy, he's all promises and still no bloody unicorn!!
Shoddy very shoddy :lol:

Didn't know about the save-fail thanks for the heads-up.

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 11:11 pm
by sirmorris
:roll: ehrmagerd yous guys you're so first-9-months-of-2017.

The latest firmwares have removed the egregious R/O bodge completely ;)

Re: Font Manager for ZXPand and UDG

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 11:18 pm
by Andy Rea
sirmorris wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2017 11:11 pm :roll: ehrmagerd yous guys you're so first-9-months-of-2017.

The latest firmwares have removed the egregious R/O bodge completely ;)
Whoops :oops: .... is it still present in eightyone 1.7? Which is where i was having some issues earlier...