Author Topic: Changing the EXOS font (Read 104679 times)

dangerman · « **Reply #15 on:** 2020.December.03. 23:43:43 »

Quote from: elmer on 2020.December.03. 00:23:20

the fonts need to be processed before they are imported, and the EXOS ROM needs to have its checksum recalculated after the patching is done, so it was easier to write a quick C program to do the work.

Ah yes - the checksum!

elmer · « **Reply #16 on:** 2020.December.05. 17:28:38 »

Quote from: elmer on 2020.December.03. 00:11:36

It has taken me a while to think of this, but I finally realised today that there is one solution that might give the best results (IMHO) for both UK and International users ...

That is to use the "-hi" font for its compatibility when in ":UK" keyboard mode, which is what you need to use anyway when running IS-FORTH or IS-LISP, and then use the "-lo" font with its better accents when in ":BRD"/":ESP"/":HUN" keyboard modes.

This method is working really well, and doing things this way also solves the problem of BASIC (or other language) programs that reset the ROM font, and expect the original font baseline (the 7-pixel above / 2-pixel below positioning).

Moving the font down by one pixel when entering ":BRD"/":ESP"/":HUN" keyboard modes is easy, but then a number of characters in the font need to be fixed to take account of the lower baseline (or the updated look of the improved accents).

Here is what the patch code for the language ROMs looks like. It fits in less than 256 bytes, and there is plenty of space for that at the end of each of the language ROMs ...

; ***************************************************************************** ; ***************************************************************************** ; ***************************************************************************** ; ; ENTERPRISE LANGUAGE ROM FIXUP ; ; Moves EXOS ROM font down by 1 line to make room for nicer accents. ; ; Patch language ROM at $DEEB (-$C000) to call "drop_font" instead of $DF4B. ; ; Assemble two files ... ; ; SPANISH=0 ; ; sjasmplus\sjasmplus exosdecode.s --lst --raw=language-patch-low.bin ; ; SPANISH=1 ; ; sjasmplus\sjasmplus exosdecode.s --lst --raw=language-patch-esp.bin ; ; ***************************************************************************** ; ***************************************************************************** ; ***************************************************************************** if 1 SPANISH = 0 ; "!?" glyphs needed for Spanish. org $FF00 ; After moving hacker's name. drop_font: ld a,(hl) ; Are we setting ":UK" mode? inc a ret z push hl ; Incoming ISO-646 font address. ld hl, .dummy_data ; Find out the address of the call $DF4B ; font in Nick RAM. ld de, $047F ; Move EXOS font down by add hl, de ; one line. ex de, hl ld hl, $FF80 add hl, de ld bc, $0400 lddr ld b, $80 ; Clear top line of font. xor a .clear: ld (de), a dec de djnz .clear ld hl, $0E + 1 add hl, de ld (hl), $7E ; Fix top line of cursor. ld hl, $1F + 1 add hl, de ld (hl), $FF ; Fix top line of block. ld hl, .fixup_data ; Customize font to improve call $DF4B ; accents and fix descenders. pop hl ; Restore ISO-646 font address. jp $DF4B .fixup_data: db $02 ; 'A'-umlaut ds 9 db $03 ; 'O'-umlaut ds 9 db $04 ; 'U'-umlaut ds 9 db $05 ; 'A'-acute ds 9 db $08 ; 'e'-acute ds 9 db $0A ; 'a'-grave ds 9 db $12 ; 'a'-umlaut ds 9 db $13 ; 'o'-umlaut ds 9 db $14 ; 'u'-umlaut ds 9 db $15 ; 'a'-acute ds 9 db $18 ; 'e'-grave ds 9 db $67 ; 'g' ds 9 db $6A ; 'j' ds 9 db $6E ; 'n' (to remove serif) ds 9 db $70 ; 'p' ds 9 db $71 ; 'q' ds 9 db $75 ; 'u' (to add serif) ds 9 db $79 ; 'y' ds 9 if SPANISH db $21 ; '!' (only for spanish) ds 9 db $3F ; '?' (only for spanish) ds 9 endif .dummy_data: db $FF endif

elmer · « **Reply #17 on:** 2020.December.16. 22:14:16 »

Here is what I hope is the final version of the new font ROMs, unless somebody provides feedback requesting a change.

I have now also modified both EPDOS and TPT to contain new versions of HFONT, to match the changes in the new EXOS font, and I have included new versions of the EXDOS 1.4 ROMs that changes the embedded font checksums so that EXDOS recognizes the new fonts.

As for the font itself, there have been changes to the stop the "(C)" symbol from being chopped off in 80-column mode, the "r" character has been changed to make it fit the style of the rest of Enterprise font, and the "/\" characters have been made full height so that they look better to anyone that has been using a PC for the last 30 years.

Enjoy!

gflorez · « **Reply #18 on:** 2020.December.16. 22:33:52 »

Great! You have worked a lot on it. I will test it, sure.

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On the past, I remember there was an utility to load a different font on the EP, but it worked as a whole definition on a file.

Also, there was an utility with a bunch of fonts, that were swapped with a command.

The problem with such programs was that they ceased to work with the language Rom.

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