Collaborate Disseminate
The fonts seen with old computer systems such as those from Apple and Commodore, as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1 and older, form an integral part of our interaction with …read more Continue reading Reliving a Bitmapped Past With a Veritable Hoard of Bitmap Fonts
Baseball is in full swing again, and having recently accepted a position with Major League Baseball, [Ty Porter] is warming up with a big contribution to the MLB LED Scoreboard …read more Continue reading Modifying Old Fonts in the Name of Baseball
Whether its one of those ubiquitous little OLED displays or a proper LCD panel, once you’ve got something a bit more capable than the classic 16×2 character LCD wired up …read more Continue reading Creating an Image Format for Embedded Hardware
Whether its one of those ubiquitous little OLED displays or a proper LCD panel, once you’ve got something a bit more capable than the classic 16×2 character LCD wired up …read more Continue reading Creating an Image Format for Embedded Hardware
The Apple II was the popular darling that truly kicked off the ascention of the company that would later bring you darlings such as the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. The brainchild of the legendary Steve Wozniak, it was a low-cost home computer that made use of some interesting compromises to create video output with the bare minimum components. This can make it difficult if you want to output full-bitmap graphics on the Apple II – but it is certainly possible.
[cybernesto] set about completing this task, and released VBMP on GitHub. Programmed in assembly, it builds upon the work of …read more